The Shadow Welfare State : : Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States /

The Shadow Welfare State : : Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States / / Marie Gottschalk.

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 c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Gottschalk, Marie,
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Gottschalk, Marie,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2000
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 4 charts, 3 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: Labor, Business, And The Shadow Welfare State
  • 2. The Missing Millions: The "Exceptional" Politics Of Organized Labor And The U.S. Welfare State
  • 3. The Institutional Straightjacket Of The Private Welfare State: Taft-Hartley, Erisa, And Experience-Rated Health Insurance
  • 4. Labor Embraces A New Idea: The Journey From National Health Insurance To An Employer Mandate
  • 5. Workers And Managers Of The World, Unite: Wooing An Elusive Ally
  • 6. Taking Care Of Business: The Political Economy Of The Health-Care Cost Burden
  • 7. Adrift And On The Defensive: Labor And The Defeat Of Clinton's Health Security Act
  • 8. Conclusion: The Peculiar Politics Of U.S. Health Policy
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • Interviewees
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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