When Mandates Work: Raising Labor Standards at the Local Level

✍ Scribed by Michael Reich (editor); Ken Jacobs (editor); Miranda Dietz (editor)

Publisher: University of California Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 341
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Starting in the 1990s, San Francisco launched a series of bold but relatively unknown public policy experiments to improve wages and benefits for thousands of local workers. Since then, scholars have documented the effects of those policies on compensation, productivity, job creation, and health coverage. Opponents predicted a range of negative impacts, but the evidence tells a decidedly different tale. This book brings together that evidence for the first time, reviews it as a whole, and considers its lessons for local, state, and federal policymakers.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Figures
Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Glossary
Chapter 1. When Do Mandates Work?
PART I. The Pay Mandates
Chapter 2. Labor Market Impacts of San Francisco’s Minimum Wage
Chapter 3. Liftoff: Raising Wages at San Francisco Airport
Chapter 4. Living Wages and Home Care Workers
PART II. The Benefit Mandates
Chapter 5. Health Spending Requirements in San Francisco
Chapter 6. Requiring Equal Benefits for Domestic Partners
Chapter 7. Universal Paid Sick Leave
PART III. Making the Mandates Work
Chapter 8. Enforcement of Labor Standards
Chapter 9. Labor Policy and Local Economic Development
Chapter 10. Community Benefit Agreements and Economic Development at Hunters Point Shipyard
Chapter 11. Mandates: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects
Contributors
Index

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