Incomparable Worth Pay Equity Meets the Market [Paperback]

An analysis of the political and economic consequences of comparable worth or pay equity policies in the USA, the UK, and Australia.Challenging proponents of equal pay for comparable worth, this text argues that implementation has been plagued by critical and insurmountable problems. Where success has been most frequently touted--in Minnesota, England, and Australia--job evaluation results are often arbitrary and political rather than objective.Challenging proponents of equal pay for comparable worth, this text argues that implementation has been plagued by critical and insurmountable problems. Where success has been most frequently touted--in Minnesota, England, and Australia--job evaluation results are often arbitrary and political rather than objective.Challenging proponents of equal pay for comparable worth, Steven Rhoads argues that implementation has been plagued by critical and insurmountable problems. Where success has been most frequently touted--in Minnesota, England, and Australia--job evaluation results are often arbitrary and political rather than objective.1. Introduction; 2. The debate over equal pay for comparable worth; 3. Implementing comparable worth in Minnesota; 4. Job evaluation in Minnesota localities; 5. Equal pay for work of equal value in the European Community; 6. Equal pay for work of equal value in the United Kingdom; 7. Equal pay for work of equal value in Australia; 8. Conclusion. Just when it seemed that the theoretical debate on comparable worth was at a standstill, that everything that could possibly be said by proponents and opponents of pay equity had been said, along comes Steven E. Rhoads's Incomparable Worth, a book that has the potential to break the logjam. Rather than engaging in a priori speculation, as most commentators on this issue have done, author Rhoads traverses the globe, searching out venues in which real people have tried to implement pay equity schemes...Incomparable Worth is richly textured and actually interel3K