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American Workers and the Future of Minimum Wage Politics

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  • Paul Kamolnick

    (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Box 70, 644, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614-0644)

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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.

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  • Paul Kamolnick, 1993. "American Workers and the Future of Minimum Wage Politics," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 25(2), pages 26-49, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:25:y:1993:i:2:p:26-49
    DOI: 10.1177/048661349302500202
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    1. Charles Brown & Curtis Gilroy & Andrew Kohen, 1982. "The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Unemployment: A Survey," NBER Working Papers 0846, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Brown, Charles & Gilroy, Curtis & Kohen, Andrew, 1982. "The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Unemployment," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 20(2), pages 487-528, June.
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