Illusions of prosperity : America's working families in an age of economic insecurity /
Faith in the free market - the idea that, for instance, profit-seeking managed care companies will improve the health care delivery system - has become a basic tenet of public policy debate. But as Joel Blau demonstrates in this eye-opening book, so-called "free market" programmes have bee...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- The triumph of the market
- Business moves: markets, nations, and inequality
- Disposable workers
- The low-wage, low skill strategy
- Education: choice, profit, and democracy
- Jobs and job training: the field of dreams
- Poverty and welfare: market as cure or market as cause?
- Democracy in the workplace?
- The government: from client to customer to citizen
- The next deal.
