Wage Justice: Comparable Worth and the Paradox of Technocratic Reform

Women in Culture and Society

by Sara M. Evans, Barbara J. Nelson

This in-depth analysis of the Minnesota experience where pay equity has proceeded farther than any other place in the nation focuses on what actually happened in implementing the most important and controversial wage policy since minimum wage and on the political, organizational, and personal consequences of using technocratic methods to change wage policy. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1989

About the author

Sara M. Evans is a distinguished scholar and Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Minnesota where she taught women's history since 1976. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Reviews

[Ian · Rating 3 out of 5]

A well-written micro-history and/or book-length public policy school case study. Even in 1989, when this was published, it would have had an extremely narrow, academic audience.

The only detail I underlined was a reminder that from 1980 to 1988, Democrats controlled 42 states! A reminder how the solidarity and optimism of the post-war period was replaced by the free-market atomism of aging boomers, which in turn, has given way to today’s nihilism.