Abstract

This article reflects on multidisciplinary research in a specific context: a community-based, economic impact research project intended to map the potential effects of a “living wage” as a poverty reduction strategy for the city of Revelstoke, British Columbia. Living wage initiatives have emerged across Canada. Intended to reduce poverty among the local working poor, they have also sparked tensions within local business communities. The project partnered anthropologists and economists with local stakeholders to examine the community's concerns about the initiative and, in particular, its impact on local small businesses. Many of the benefits of a living wage campaign are difficult to measure, while the potential impacts on labor costs and consequences are easier to trace. The project resulted in an interactive tool that can provide an economic sector specific impact assessment against which the wider social benefits of poverty reduction can be judged. We analyze the consequences of a participatory method...

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