Theories of Low-Wage Work: Findings from an Analysis of Textbooks on Human Behavior and the Social Environment |
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Authors: | Erin Marie Clark |
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Institution: | School of Social Welfare, University of California , Berkeley, Berkeley , California , USA |
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Abstract: | This is a review of 14 of the most commonly used textbooks on human behavior and the social environment as regards their content relating to low-wage work. The textbooks are divided into three categories, analyzed, and compared. Particular attention is paid to theoretical perspectives on low-wage work. In most of the textbooks, the content on low-wage work is scattered, with few textbooks providing theoretical grounding on this issue. However, several of the textbooks did provide theoretical lenses that could be applied to low-wage work. The review concludes with a discussion of how theoretical views could be incorporated better into each of the three categories. |
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Keywords: | Low-wage work underpaid work working poor social work human behavior and the social environment |
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