wages

Describes the history of the value of the American dollar from 1860 through 2009, and details the evolution of cost in the United States for various goods and materials.

Contains over twenty essays that offer varying perspectives on controversial issues related to the wage gap, such as whether it is narrowing, what causes it, and the effects of education on it.

Explores how corporate outsourcing has influenced free trade and the controversial issues surrounding offshore outsourcing to China, focusing on the outsourcing of white-collar jobs at U.S. global manufacturing and high-tech companies.

Examines the lives of the working poor in America--people who exist just barely beneath or a little above the federal government's official poverty line, and discusses the obstacles they face in trying to improve their circumstances.