The Shadow Welfare State

by Marie Gottschalk

Book Overview

Why, in the recent campaigns for universal health care, did organized labor maintain its support of employer-mandated insurance? Did labor's weakened condition prevent it from endorsing national health insurance? Marie Gottschalk demonstrates here that the unions' surprising stance was a consequence of the peculiarly private nature of social policy in the United States. Her book combines a much-needed account of labor's important role in determining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801486483
• ISBN13: 9780801486487
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher