The Living Wage

Acknowledgements

Thanks to our families for their loving support during the time in which this book was developed and edited: Paula, and Julie and James. Thanks also to Alexandra Atkinson, Terry Clague, Amy Laurens, and Emmie Shand at Routledge for their guiding contributions throughout. We would like to acknowledge the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust for grant funding for our research on the living wage, which provided the impetus to plan this book. Finally, we sincerely thank all the contributors to the chapters, from around the world. We gratefully acknowledge their support and enthusiasm, enabling this book to be published.

To greater equality around the world for the many, not the few.