IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-349-10896-1_6.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Statutory Minimum Wage Question

In: Employment Disputes and the Third Party

Author

Listed:
  • Pat Lowry

Abstract

Employers and trade unions in the UK were at one time united in their opposition to the concept of a statutorily-fixed national minimum wage, this despite pressure for its introduction from those speaking on behalf of the low paid. Employers were concerned that any form of state regulation would interfere with the freedom of the labour market and that any minimum that might be established would be fixed too high. This would lead to an unsupportable increase in labour costs in organisations directly affected and to pressure for the maintenance of differentials elsewhere. Trade unions were concerned either that the statutory minimum would be so low as to be meaningless or that its very establishment would weaken potential employee commitment to trade union organisation and collective bargaining.

Suggested Citation

  • Pat Lowry, 1990. "The Statutory Minimum Wage Question," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Employment Disputes and the Third Party, chapter 5, pages 160-174, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-10896-1_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10896-1_6
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-10896-1_6. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.