Copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Editorial -- Living wage policies and campaigns: Lessons from the United States -- Defining a living wage -- Coverage -- Research: What is the impact? -- Expansion of the movement -- Lessons learned for the United States -- Lessons in the international context -- References -- Rescuing the minimum wage as a tool for development in Brazil -- The role of politics and of trade union centrals in shoring up the minimum wage in Brazil -- Brazil's minimum wage: A bit of history -- The recent evolution of the minimum wage -- The functions of the minimum wage in Brazil -- Conclusion -- References -- The effectiveness of minimum wages in developing countries: The case of India -- Minimum wages in India -- The effectiveness of minimum wages in India -- Who benefits from minimum wages? -- Enforcement and the role of employment guarantee schemes -- Conclusion -- References -- Asia Floor Wage and global industrial collective bargaining -- Wage in the global economy -- Global garment industry -- History of labour rights activism in garment industry -- Global industrial bargaining -- Right to a minimum living wage -- Asia Floor Wage -- Moving forward -- References -- European minimum wage policy: A concept for wage-led growth and fair wages in Europe -- Minimum wages on the European agenda -- Different systems of minimum wage setting -- Levels of minimum wages in Europe -- The concept of a European minimum wage policy -- References -- At what level should countries set their minimum wages? -- Some preliminary considerations -- A balanced approach to minimum wage setting -- Indicators for minimum wage setting -- The minimum living wage calculation -- Conclusion -- References -- Figure -- Federal minimum wage versus US poverty threshold, 1960 to 2010.

Real value of the minimum wage on each adjustment date(ICV-DIEESE - 1st social stratum - 1 Sep. 1994to 1 Jan. 2012 (1 Sep. 1994 index = 100) -- Evolution of the real minimum wage annual average in Sao Paulo, 1940-2011 -- Gini coefficients of all labour productivity, per capita household incomeand real minimum wage, 1999-2009 annual average (July 1940 = 100) -- A typology of minimum wage systems -- Union density and national minimum wages in Europe at the end of the 2000s -- Collective bargaining coverage and national minimum wages in Europeat the end of the 2000s -- National minimum wages in Europe, January 2012 -- National minimum wages in Europe, January 2012 -- Proportion of low-wage earners and national minimum wages in Europe, 2007 -- Minimum wages and social dialogue -- The skewed distribution of earnings -- Ratio of minimum to mean wages in 75 countries -- Table -- Wage levels, 2011, selected cities -- Estimates of beneficiaries of social welfare and of unemployment insurance,and of active workers earning exactly the equivalent of the minimum wage -- Employment by activity status, all India, 2009-10 -- Proportion of workers below minimum wage (Rs 80) pay, all India -- Domestic workers not receiving minimum wages, 2009-10 -- Proportion of workers in specific schedules of employment paid lessthan the minimum wages, 2009-10 -- Probit estimates of workers receiving below minimum wages,ages 15-64 years, India, 2009-10 -- Beneficiaries of national rural employment guarantee scheme,rural India, 2009-10 -- Mechanisms of wage payment under NREGS, all India, 2009-10 -- Different systems of minimum wage setting in Europe -- Minimum wages in % of median and average wages, 2010 -- Conclusion of the Council of Europe on the national conformitywith the "right to a fair remuneration" -- Box.

The employment effects of the UK National Minimum Wage after 10 years -- An illustration for Egypt in 2008-09.