Fighting for a Living Wage or Applied Statistics in Occupational Safety and Health

Fighting for a Living Wage

Author: Stephanie Luc

The living wage movement is considered by many to be the most interesting grassroots enterprise to emerge since the civil rights movement. Ten years after the first ordinance was passed in Baltimore, there are more than one hundred living wage ordinances on the books across the United States, and the movement continues to thrive and grow, despite increasing opposition. This book is not a simple celebration of the living wage movement, but a critical evaluation in which Stephanie Luce, a national expert on living wage campaigns, assesses the strengths and shortcomings of various campaigns and their resulting implementation.Although many local governments have been convinced to pass living wage ordinances, the movement has had less success in ensuring that these ordinances are fully realized. Some cities have consistently enforced their ordinances after passage. In other communities implementation is weak or nonexistent, and thousands of workers do not benefit from laws designed to ensure that they are paid a living wage. Luce provides in Fighting for a Living Wage the first serious examination of the reasons for implementation failure, as well as an analysis of the factors that lead to success. Luce argues that citizens can play a significant role in implementing and monitoring living wage policies, even where governments oppose the movement or are reluctant to enforce the laws in question. Luce finds that the nature of the campaign to formulate and pass policy can influence the likelihood of successful implementation. Surprisingly, the chances for thorough enforcement are greater in communities where living wage campaigns caused more, not less, conflict.

Author Bio: Stephanie Luce is Assistant Professor and Research Director at the University of MassachusettsAmherst. She is coauthor with Robert Pollin of The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy.

Table of Contents:

1	The politics of implementation	1
2	Setting the stage : the political and economic context	15
3	Overview of the movement	32
4	A closer look at living wage campaigns	57
5	Living wage outcomes	71
6	Implementation : what happens after laws are passed?	95
7	Fighting from the outside	112
8	Coalitions playing a formal role	131
9	Factors needed for successful implementation : inside and outside strategies	150
10	Other outcomes beyond implementation	181
11	The future of the living wage movement and lessons for policy implementation	207

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Applied Statistics in Occupational Safety and Health

Author: Christopher A A Janicak

Applied Statistics in Occupational Safety and Health provides occupational safety and health professionals with an introductory guide to basic statistics and data analysis. Created for those who have little experience with statistics or those who need to keep a concise reference book at hand, this simplified guide uses examples and applications common to safety professionals including safety managers, safety engineers, loss control consultants, and occupational health nurses to simplify the process of data analysis.

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Provides occupational safety and health professionals with an introductory guide to basic statistic and data analysis. Uses step-by- step methods and examples and applications common to safety professionals to explain how to apply appropriate statistical procedures to commonly encountered situations. Gives methods for applying statistics properly, describes detailed procedures for each statistical test and methods for using them, presents descriptive statistical concepts and explains how they can be used to summarize data, and examines inferential statistics for parametric and non- parametric procedures. Includes summaries, exercises, and solutions, plus five appendices of statistical tables. The author is assistant professor of safety and director of the Safety Program at Illinois State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)