Differences That Matter : : Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada / / Dan Zuberi.
This book shines a spotlight on the causes and consequences of working poverty, revealing how the lives of low-wage workers are affected by differences in health care, labor, and social welfare policy in the United States and Canada. Dan Zuberi's conclusions are based on survey data, eighteen m...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2006 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 2 halftones, 12 tables, 5 charts/graphs, 3 maps |
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t CONTENTS -- |t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- |t CHAPTER 1. Introduction -- |t CHAPTER 2. Poverty and Policy in the United States and Canada -- |t CHAPTER 3. The Story and the Setting -- |t CHAPTER 4. The Union Difference -- |t CHAPTER 5. Health -Care Differences -- |t CHAPTER 6. Social Welfare Policy Differences -- |t CHAPTER 7. Public Investment and City-Level Differences -- |t CHAPTER 8. Subjective Perceptions and Future Outlook -- |t CHAPTER 9. Improving the Lives of the Working Poor -- |t CHAPTER 10. Conclusion -- |t APPENDIX -- |t NOTES -- |t REFERENCES -- |t INDEX |
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520 | |a This book shines a spotlight on the causes and consequences of working poverty, revealing how the lives of low-wage workers are affected by differences in health care, labor, and social welfare policy in the United States and Canada. Dan Zuberi's conclusions are based on survey data, eighteen months of participant observation fieldwork, and in-depth interviews with seventy-seven hotel employees working in parallel jobs on both sides of the border. Two hotel chains, each with one union and one non-union hotel in Seattle and Vancouver, provide a vivid crossnational comparison because they are similar in so many regards, the one major exception being government policy.Zuberi demonstrates how labor, health, social welfare, and public investment policy affect these hotel workers and their families. His book challenges the myth that globalization necessarily means hospitality jobs must be insecure and pay poverty wages and makes clear the critical role played by government policy in the reduction of poverty and creation of economic equality. Zuberi shows exactly where and how the social policies that distinguish the Canadian welfare state from the U.S. version make a difference in protecting Canadian workers from the hardships that burden low-wage workers in the United States. Differences That Matter, which is filled with first-person accounts, ends with policy recommendations and a call for grassroots community organizing. | ||
538 | |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
546 | |a In English. | ||
588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) | |
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