Living Wage Campaigns, Part 2: Challenges Facing the Movement

http://solidarity-us.org/node/1782
Date Written:  1998-11-01
Publisher:  Against the Current, Michigan, USA
Year Published:  1998
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX12781

IN THE PREVIOUS article (see ATC 76), I discussed the basic concepts, advocates and goals behind living wage campaigns, as well as some of the movement's successes. These include a positive ideological effect on legislators and other organizations' agendas; the creation of strong and lasting coalitions; the development of new worker organizations; and the growth of existing worker organizations.

Subject Headings

• Coalition Building
• Living Wage
• Poverty
• United States of America
• U.S. Virgin Islands
• Welfare Reform