This anthology debates the idea of giving all people - no matter which profession or position they have (and whether they have a job or not) - the same pay. Some contributors argue against equal pay for all, some for increased pay equality but not for total pay equality, and some argue for equal pay for all. There is no common conclusion in the book; instead, the book aims to encourage reflection as well as further debate on something that is often taken for granted, namely differentiated pay, by offering a set of various standpoints in the debate, backed-up with various kinds of arguments. Among bases for arguments that are put forward in the book, economy, practicability and ethics belong to the most frequently occurring ones. This book is the first one to be published in the book series Palgrave Debates in Business and Management.

Chapter: 1: Background and introduction: why debating equal pay for all?.- Part I: AGAINST EQUAL PAY FOR ALL.-Chapter: 2: Equal pay for all: an idea whose time has not, and will not, come

Chapter: 3: Universal equal pay wrong-foots the distribution of incomes
Chapter: 4: More onerous work deserves higher pay
Chapter: 5: Equal pay for knowledge workers in academia: an unrealistic proposition.- Part II: AGAINST EQUAL PAY FOR ALL BUT FOR EQUAL MINIMUM INCOME FOR ALL.- Chapter: 6: Equal pay: a floor not a ceiling
Chapter: 7: Limiting insecurity, not opportunity.- Part III: TOWARDS INCREASED PAY EQUALITY
Chapter: 8: A "middle way" between the free market and full equality: a pay ratio
Chapter: 9: Closing the gap: the benefits of lowering pay ratios
Chapter:10: How fair is equal pay? The need for a more balanced perspective
Chapter: 11: Are there moral limits to wageinequality?
Chapter:12: Equal pay for a green future.- Part IV: FOR EQUAL PAY FOR ALL
Chapter: 13: Can a Honduran have what a Norwegian has? Equal pay for all countries: an exploration
Chapter: 14: Economic equality as a precondition for democracy and social justice
Chapter:15: Defending equal pay for all against objections from the achievement principle
Chapter:16: Equal pay as a precondition of justice?
Chapter:17: Equal pay for all (per hour worked).