Family wage

A family wage is a wage that is sufficient to raise a family. This contrasts with a living wage, which is generally taken to mean a wage sufficient for a single individual to live on, but not necessarily sufficient to also support a family.

History

United States

The term "family wage jobs" has occasional contemporary use in American political rhetoric and is most associated with Catholic intellectuals, in the Catholic social teaching tradition, such as Douglas Kmiec and Allan C. Carlson. Charles Krauthammer has said there should be a two-tiered system where breadwinners have a higher minimum wage.^[1]

Israel

A family wage – a basic wage, with a supplement by family size, was adopted by the dominant trade union in the British Mandate of Palestine (now the state of Israel), Histadrut, in 1923, and remained policy for a decade, but implementation was limited.^[2]

United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, a family wage was a demand of male labour unionists at the turn of the 19th century.^[3]

References

^ Schwartz, Ian (30 December 2013). "Krauthammer's Minimum Wage Solution: Make It A Two-Tier System". Real Clear Politics. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
^ See The Founding Myths of Israel, Chapter 6 - Democracy and Equality on Trial
^ Oxford Dictionary of Sociology

Oxford Dictionary of Sociology: family wage Archived 2008-10-03 at the Wayback Machine

[1] Schwartz, Ian (30 December 2013). "Krauthammer's Minimum Wage Solution: Make It A Two-Tier System". Real Clear Politics. Retrieved 25 June 2018.

[2] See The Founding Myths of Israel, Chapter 6 - Democracy and Equality on Trial

[3] Oxford Dictionary of Sociology

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