American Workers and the Future of Minimum Wage Politics

Paul Kamolnick
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Paul Kamolnick: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Box 70, 644, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614-0644

Review of Radical Political Economics, 1993, vol. 25, issue 2, 26-49

Abstract: This essay provides a detailed, worker-oriented assessment of the new federal minimum wage law. Using a class-analytic approach and empirical findings generated by the 1987-1989 campaign to increase the federal minimum wage, I examine specific provisions of the new law and key political-economic variables evident in the struggle to pass it. I conclude by offering strategic observations on key trends likely to shape future campaigns to increase the federal minimum wage.

Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1177/048661349302500202

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