Shadow Welfare State
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-...
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-...
