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Living Wage Considerations in the Right‐to‐Work State of South Carolina
Author(s) -
Kingsolver Ann
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
anthropology of work review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.151
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1548-1417
pISSN - 0883-024X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1417.2010.01039.x
Subject(s) - living wage , state (computer science) , legislation , unemployment , work (physics) , politics , right to work , wage , frame work , movement (music) , minimum wage , political science , economics , political economy , sociology , labour economics , economic growth , law , mechanical engineering , philosophy , physics , engineering , algorithm , particle physics , computer science , aesthetics
In a time of economic crisis, when unemployment and food insecurity have increased dramatically in South Carolina, is a living wage movement more or less likely? This article does not investigate this question ethnographically, but discusses the conditions for a living wage movement in this southern U.S. state, including the right‐to‐work legislation and logics that frame understandings and policies regarding employment and economic well‐being in the state. Interpretive and political economic anthropological perspectives are employed in this analysis.