Working and living in the shadow of economic fragility / edited by Marion G. Crain, Michael Sherraden.
2014
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Title
Working and living in the shadow of economic fragility / edited by Marion G. Crain, Michael Sherraden.
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Call Number
HC106.84 .W67 2014
ISBN
9780199988488
019998848X
019998848X
Description
xxviii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Other Standard Identifiers
40023529810
40023525957
40023525957
System Control No.
(OCoLC)857356582
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index.
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Table of Contents
Illustrations
vii
Abbreviations
ix
Contributors
x
Introduction / Michael Sherraden
xiii
1.
The Continuing Unemployment Crisis: Causes, Cures, and Questions for Further Study / Michael Sherraden
1
2.
Too Much Spending or Too Little Income? The Macroeconomics of Household Spending and Debt in the Consumer Age / Steven M. Fazzari
36
3.
Financial Fragility, Medical Problems, and the Bankruptcy System / Mirya R. Holman
53
4.
The Affordable Care Act and Low-Wage Workers / Timothy D. McBride
70
5.
How Will Employers Respond to National Health Reform? Lessons from the 2006 Reform Initiative in Massachusetts / Ariel Fogel
82
6.
Unionism, Law, and the Collective Struggle for Economic Justice / Ken Matheny
101
7.
The Limits of Voluntary Employer Action for Improving Low-Level Jobs / Susan J. Lambert
120
8.
Economic Security and the American Dream / Thomas A. Hirschl
140
9.
Guardianship and the New Gilded Age: Insular Politics and the Perils of Elite Rule / Lawrence R. Jacobs
157
10.
"Keep Government out of My Medicare": The Search for Popular Support of Taxes and Social Spending / Gillian Lester
176
11.
A Model of American Inequality, Opportunity, and Political Power / Jared Bernstein
194
12.
The Challenge of Creating Good Jobs / Michael Lind
213
Notes
233
Index
245