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The shadow welfare state : labor, business, and the politics of health-care in the United States

Title
The shadow welfare state : labor, business, and the politics of health-care in the United States / Marie Gottschalk.
Author
Gottschalk, Marie.
Publication
Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press, 2000.

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Description
x, 288 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • Labor unions and health insurance > United States
  • Public welfare > United States
  • Health insurance > Government policy > United States
  • Insurance, Health
  • Health Policy
  • Labor Unions
  • Public Assistance
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-273) and index.
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 0801437458 (cloth)
  • 0801486483 (paper)
LCCN
99088449
OCLC
  • ocm43145707
  • SCSB-4084792
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries