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"The goal of this book is to assist social work students, practicing social workers, and other human services professionals in gaining a better understanding of economic life and economic policy perspectives. This book can serve as a core or supplementary text for undergraduate and graduate social work curricula. The book is also accessible to those already practicing in the field who want to strengthen their understanding of economic life. The text introduces human services professionals to the key economic indicators that economists and policymakers use to evaluate the economic health of society. These indicators can be critical for justifying budgets, projecting needs, and writing grant proposals, and also help define economic problems such as unemployment, recessions, inequality, and poverty"--

Wage setting has historically been a deeply political and cultural as well as economic process. This informative and accessible book explores how US wage regulations in the twentieth century took gender, race-ethnicity and class into account. Focusing on social reform movements for living wages and equal wages, it offers an interdisciplinary account of how women's work and the remuneration for that work has changed along with the massive transformations in the economy and family structures. The controversial issue of establishing living wages for all workers makes this book both a timely and indispensable contribution to this wide ranging debate, and it will surely become required reading for anyone with an interest in modern economic issues.

This reader is designed for use as a primary or supplementary text for courses on women's role in the economy. Both interdisciplinary and heterodox in its approach, it showcases feminist economic analyses that utilize insights from institutionalism as well as neoclassical economics. Including both classic and newer selections from a broad range of areas, each section includes an introduction with background material, as well as discussion questions, exercises, and lists of key terms an further readings.

This book provides an overview of current developments within feminist political economy, including reformulations of economic theory, historical and empirical research on the economic roles and status of women and people of color, as well as proposals for broadening the public policy agenda. Rather than offering a feminist critique of neoclassical economics, this volume presents feminist economics in dialogue with progressive economic theory and public policy. It differentiates itself further by addressing issues of class, race and sexuality in interaction with gender.