The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States
ISBN: 9781501725005
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter



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...


Marie Gottschalk is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She was formerly Associate Editor of World Policy Journal .

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