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Author Blau, Joel

Title Illusions of Prosperity : America's Working Families in an Age of Economic Insecurity
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (289 pages)
Contents Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: The Turn to the Market; Part II: The Path Upward?; Part III: Both Workers and Citizens: The Route to Economic Security; Notes; Index
Summary Faith in the free market has become a basic tenet of public policy debate, but as this text demonstrates, so-called "free market" programmes have been a dismal failure, heightening inequality, lowering the median standard of living, and steadily eroding the quality of our social and political life
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Subject Business relocation -- United States
Foreign trade and employment -- United States
Free trade -- United States
Income distribution -- United States
Plant shutdowns -- United States
Public welfare -- United States.
Unemployment -- United States
Wages -- Developing countries
Business relocation
Economic policy
Foreign trade and employment
Free trade
Income distribution
Plant shutdowns
Public welfare
Unemployment
Wages
Labor & Workers' Economics.
Business & Economics.
SUBJECT United States -- Economic policy -- 1993-2001. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006370
Subject Developing countries
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780198025061
0198025068