Contents
Tables and Figures
Contributors
Introduction - Stephanie Luce, Jennifer Luff, Joseph A. McCartin, and Ruth Milkman
Part I. Low-Wage Work in Historical Perspective
Chapter 1. An Economy That Works for Workers - Alice O’Connor
Chapter 2. What Can Labor Organizations Do for U.S. Workers When Unions Can’t DoWhat Unions Used to Do? - Richard B. Freeman
Part II. Workers on the Edge: Marginalized and Disadvantaged
Chapter 3. Connecting the Disconnected: Improving Education and Employment Outcomes Among Disadvantaged Youth - Peter B. Edelman and Harry J. Holzer
Chapter 4. Mending the Fissured Workplace - David Weil
Chapter 5. Holding the Line on Workplace Standards: What Works for Immigrant Workers (and What Doesn’t)? - Jennifer Gordon
Part III. Innovative Labor Market Interventions
Chapter 6. Career Ladders in the Low-Wage Labor Market - Paul Osterman
Chapter 7. Employment Subsidies to Firmsand Workers: Key Distinctions Between the Effects of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit - Sarah Hamersma
Chapter 8. Living Wages, Minimum Wages, and Low-Wage Workers - Stephanie Luce
Part IV. Social Insurance Programs and Low-Wage Work
Chapter 9. Improving Low-Income Workers’ Access to Unemployment Insurance - Jeffrey B. Wenger
Chapter 10. Can the Affordable Care Act Reverse Three Decades of Declining Health Insurance Coverage for Low-Wage Workers? - John Schmitt
Chapter 11. Low-Wage Workers and Paid Family Leave: The California Experience - Ruth Milkman and Eileen Appelbaum
Index