From one century to the next: minimum wages, economics, and public debate in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom (1890-2015).

Summary This article traces the economic debates around the minimum wage since the end of the 19th century in the United States, France and the United Kingdom (and its Commonwealth), in their empirical and theoretical dimensions, but also in their methodological and epistemological dimensions. The analysis also integrates a historical sociology of science approach, aiming to recontextualize these debates according to the modes of articulation of the academic sphere with three other spheres: the political sphere, the administrative sphere, and the sphere of civil society and the economic and social world. Three periods are distinguished - around the First World War, from the 1940s to the 1980s, and since the early 1990s.