Ellen Mutari
Biographic Data
| ID | 5605239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen Mutari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen |
| FAMILY NAME | Mutari |
| SIGNATURE | MUTARI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2204-7742 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Economic Literacy as a Tool for Advocacy
Learning about how economic well-being—or the lack of well-being—shapes peoples’ lives can enhance social work students’ and professionals’ efforts to “champion social progress powered by science,” a stated aim of the Grand Challenges for Social Work. Yet social work and economics have pursued divergent paths since the late 20th century, inhibiting productive collaboration. Modern, pluralist approaches to economic literacy can restart cross-disci…
Decentering efficiency in teaching economics
When we reshape the content of our economics curriculum to incorporate lessons garnered during the COVID-19 pandemic, we should start with the very definition of the discipline as the study of how society manages its scarce resources. The rigorous pursuit of narrow concepts of economic efficiency has weakened our society's ability to prepare for and respond to this pandemic. Efficiency means that there is no slack in the system. Our definition of…
Metaphors, social practices, and economic life: ASE presidential address
Our lived experiences of the economy shape the metaphors that we use to describe the economy. Yet, any particular metaphor can only provide a partial perspective. There are two ways our conceptual frameworks have reflected partial perspectives. The first is historical: our conceptual frameworks tend to build upon ideas developed during the factory age. A machine metaphor, grounded in the industrial age, focuses on the transformation of resources …
Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus: Gender, Law, and Society
Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labour Market Policies in the United States
Wage setting has historically been a deeply political and cultural as well as economic process. This informative and accessible book explores how US wage regulations in the twentieth century took gender, race-ethnicity and class into account. Focusing on social reform movements for living wages and equal wages, it offers an interdisciplinary account of how women's work and the remuneration for that work has changed along with the massive transfor…
Brothers and Breadwinners: Legislating Living Wages in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
Attention to the implicit and explicit wage theories articulated by economic actors and embedded in public policy reveals the underlying social norms and values in specific historical and industrial contexts. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), the first federal minimum wage legislation in the United States, legitimated and institutionalized the idea that living standards and workers' needs matter in setting wages. They matter not simply…
Neither Mothers Nor Breadwinners: African-American Women's Exclusion From US Minimum Wage Policies, 1912-1938
We examine two key US labor market policies: state-level minimum wages for women from 1912-23 and the federal minimum wage established under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Each of these regulations implicitly defined which groups were and were not expected to conform to the hegemonic male breadwinner/female homemaker model of gender relations. In fact, social reformers and labor leaders advocated these policy measures as a means of extendi…
Implicit Wage Theories in Equal Pay Debates in the United States
We identify three implicit wage theories in U.S. debates over the principle of equal pay for equal work: wages as a living , wages as a price , and wages as a social practice . Arguments for wages as a living emphasize that the purpose of the wage is to provide an adequate level of support for the worker. Proponents of wages as a price emphasize that wages allocate resources and are primarily the outcome of forces of supply and demand. To these t…
Europe at a Crossroads: Harmonization, Liberalization, and the Gender of Work Time
Journal Article Europe at a Crossroads: Harmonization, Liberalization, and the Gender of Work Time Get access ELLEN MUTARI, ELLEN MUTARI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DEBORAH M. FIGART DEBORAH M. FIGART Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 8, Issue 1, Spring 2001, Pages 36–64, https://doi.org/10.…
Degendering Work Time in Comparative Perspective: Alternative Policy Frameworks
Policy initiatives providing for alternative working time arrangements as well as a shortened standard work week have become prevalent in recent years, especially among the highly industrialized countries of northern Europe. We find that despite institutional differences, Germany, France, and Sweden have adopted policies that explicitly or implicitly contribute to the gendering of work time. Increasingly, what differentiates gender roles is not w…
Women's employment patterns during the U.S. inter-war period: A comparison of two states
Establishment data from New York and Ohio, two U.S. states representing mature versus dynamic industrial sectors, are used to decompose changes in women's employment during economic fluctuations in the 1920s and 1930s. By decomposing changes in women's employment, one can distinguish between changes which reflect the gender distribution of employment between various industry categories and changes which reflect employer decisions to mobilize spec…
Europe at a Crossroads: Harmonization, Liberalization, and the Gender of Work Time
Journal Article Europe at a Crossroads: Harmonization, Liberalization, and the Gender of Work Time Get access ELLEN MUTARI, ELLEN MUTARI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DEBORAH M. FIGART DEBORAH M. FIGART Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 8, Issue 1, Spring 2001, Pages 36–64, https://doi.org/10.…
Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus: Gender, Law, and Society
Brothers and Breadwinners: Legislating Living Wages in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
Attention to the implicit and explicit wage theories articulated by economic actors and embedded in public policy reveals the underlying social norms and values in specific historical and industrial contexts. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), the first federal minimum wage legislation in the United States, legitimated and institutionalized the idea that living standards and workers' needs matter in setting wages. They matter not simply…
Degendering Work Time in Comparative Perspective: Alternative Policy Frameworks
Policy initiatives providing for alternative working time arrangements as well as a shortened standard work week have become prevalent in recent years, especially among the highly industrialized countries of northern Europe. We find that despite institutional differences, Germany, France, and Sweden have adopted policies that explicitly or implicitly contribute to the gendering of work time. Increasingly, what differentiates gender roles is not w…
Women's employment patterns during the U.S. inter-war period: A comparison of two states
Establishment data from New York and Ohio, two U.S. states representing mature versus dynamic industrial sectors, are used to decompose changes in women's employment during economic fluctuations in the 1920s and 1930s. By decomposing changes in women's employment, one can distinguish between changes which reflect the gender distribution of employment between various industry categories and changes which reflect employer decisions to mobilize spec…
Degendering Work Time in Comparative Perspective: Alternative Policy Frameworks
Policy initiatives providing for alternative working time arrangements as well as a shortened standard work week have become prevalent in recent years, especially among the highly industrialized countries of northern Europe. We find that despite institutional differences, Germany, France, and Sweden have adopted policies that explicitly or implicitly contribute to the gendering of work time. Increasingly, what differentiates gender roles is not w…
Implicit Wage Theories in Equal Pay Debates in the United States
We identify three implicit wage theories in U.S. debates over the principle of equal pay for equal work: wages as a living , wages as a price , and wages as a social practice . Arguments for wages as a living emphasize that the purpose of the wage is to provide an adequate level of support for the worker. Proponents of wages as a price emphasize that wages allocate resources and are primarily the outcome of forces of supply and demand. To these t…
Europe at a Crossroads: Harmonization, Liberalization, and the Gender of Work Time
Journal Article Europe at a Crossroads: Harmonization, Liberalization, and the Gender of Work Time Get access ELLEN MUTARI, ELLEN MUTARI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DEBORAH M. FIGART DEBORAH M. FIGART Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 8, Issue 1, Spring 2001, Pages 36–64, https://doi.org/10.…
Neither Mothers Nor Breadwinners: African-American Women's Exclusion From US Minimum Wage Policies, 1912-1938
We examine two key US labor market policies: state-level minimum wages for women from 1912-23 and the federal minimum wage established under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Each of these regulations implicitly defined which groups were and were not expected to conform to the hegemonic male breadwinner/female homemaker model of gender relations. In fact, social reformers and labor leaders advocated these policy measures as a means of extendi…
Brothers and Breadwinners: Legislating Living Wages in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
Attention to the implicit and explicit wage theories articulated by economic actors and embedded in public policy reveals the underlying social norms and values in specific historical and industrial contexts. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), the first federal minimum wage legislation in the United States, legitimated and institutionalized the idea that living standards and workers' needs matter in setting wages. They matter not simply…
Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labour Market Policies in the United States
Wage setting has historically been a deeply political and cultural as well as economic process. This informative and accessible book explores how US wage regulations in the twentieth century took gender, race-ethnicity and class into account. Focusing on social reform movements for living wages and equal wages, it offers an interdisciplinary account of how women's work and the remuneration for that work has changed along with the massive transfor…
Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus: Gender, Law, and Society
Metaphors, social practices, and economic life: ASE presidential address
Our lived experiences of the economy shape the metaphors that we use to describe the economy. Yet, any particular metaphor can only provide a partial perspective. There are two ways our conceptual frameworks have reflected partial perspectives. The first is historical: our conceptual frameworks tend to build upon ideas developed during the factory age. A machine metaphor, grounded in the industrial age, focuses on the transformation of resources …
Decentering efficiency in teaching economics
When we reshape the content of our economics curriculum to incorporate lessons garnered during the COVID-19 pandemic, we should start with the very definition of the discipline as the study of how society manages its scarce resources. The rigorous pursuit of narrow concepts of economic efficiency has weakened our society's ability to prepare for and respond to this pandemic. Efficiency means that there is no slack in the system. Our definition of…
Economic Literacy as a Tool for Advocacy
Learning about how economic well-being—or the lack of well-being—shapes peoples’ lives can enhance social work students’ and professionals’ efforts to “champion social progress powered by science,” a stated aim of the Grand Challenges for Social Work. Yet social work and economics have pursued divergent paths since the late 20th century, inhibiting productive collaboration. Modern, pluralist approaches to economic literacy can restart cross-disci…
Economics (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Labour economics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (3 works)