Apart at the Seams: The Collapse of Private Pension and Health Care Protections

by Charles R. Morris

Throughout most of the past century, America, uniquely among industrial countries, assumed that private businesses would take primary responsibility for providing retirement security and health insurance to working-age people and their families--an arrangement that became known as American welfare capitalism. That assumption has been put to the test by the fierce competitive onslaught on almost every major American industry that began in the 1970s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087078501X
• ISBN13: 9780870785016
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Century Foundation Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"