The Politics of the Minimum Wage. By Jerold Waltman. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. 172p. $24.95

In: American political science review, Band 95, Heft 1, S. 225-226

Abstract

Upon receiving Jerald Waltman's book, the first thing I read
was the dedication to the author's "coworkers at A. & W.
Root Beer, Ruston, Louisiana, 1963­67." I like root beer, but
I wondered whether a mistake had been made in sending me
this book to review. It did not take long to realize no mistake
had been made. This is a book that treats minimum wage as
symbolic politics, but, more important, it entirely reexamines
public policy.