Deliberating Upon the Living Wage to Alleviate In-Work Poverty: A Rhetorical Inquiry Into Key Stakeholder Accounts
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2022-06
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Frontiers Media S.A
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Abstract
Most developed nations have a statutory minimum wage set at levels insufficient to alleviate poverty. Increased calls for a living wage have generated considerable public controversy. This article draws on 25 interviews and four focus groups with employers, low-pay industry representatives, representatives of chambers of commerce, pay consultants, and unions. The core focus is on how participants use prominent narrative tropes for the living wage and against the living wage to argue their respective perspectives. We also document how both affirmative and negative tropes are often combined by participants to craft their own rhetorical positions on the issue.
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in-work poverty, living wage, minimum wage, public deliberation, rhetoric, socio-economic inclusion
Citation
Hodgetts DJ, Young-Hauser AM, Arrowsmith J, Parker J, Carr SC, Haar J, Alefaio S. (2022). Deliberating Upon the Living Wage to Alleviate In-Work Poverty: A Rhetorical Inquiry Into Key Stakeholder Accounts.. Front Psychol. 13. (pp. 810870-).