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Abstract
Real living wages (RLWs) are an important ethical and moral policy to ensure that employees earn enough to live on. In providing ‘a fair day's pay for a fair day's work’, they set an ethical foundation for liveability. This article explores the ethics and moral economy of the RLW for lower-paid staff in the overlooked economy context of UK professional football, illustrated by a qualitative case study of Luton Town Football Club (LTFC). The article provides theoretical insights grounded in moral economy concepts about how a RLW contributes to a broader common good means of enabling fuller human participation in decent working and living conditions. Applying these concepts using a multi-disciplinary moral economy interpretation offers deeper theoretical contributions than economistic interpretations restricted to mainly technocratic economic distributive issues. LTFC are evidently ethically embedded in a moral economy as a local community club paying a RLW, and part of the overlooked economy. The research also contributes to contemporary debates on ‘Common Good’ HRM regarding the role of living wages in addressing grand common good challenges like inequality and quality of working lives.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Journal of Business Ethics |
Early online date | 26 Mar 2024 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 26 Mar 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Acknowledgments:We would like to thank all participants that kindly contributed to this research. The research was supported by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust [SRG1819\190788]: The ethics of living wages for low-paid staff in UK professional football clubs
Keywords
- ‘Common Good’ HRM
- Contributive justice
- Ethics
- Football
- Living wage
- Moral economy
- Overlooked economy
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The ethics of living wages for low-paid staff in UK professional football clubs
Dobbins, T. (Principal Investigator)
1/05/19 → 31/03/22
Project: Research Councils