Right-to-Work Laws and the Crumbling of American Public Health

This book discusses the socioeconomic effects of Right-to-Work (RTW) laws on state populations. RTW laws forbid requiring union membership even at union-represented worksites. The core of the 22 long-term RTW states was the Confederacy, cultural descendants of rigidly hierarchical agrarian feudal En...

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1. Verfasser: Wallace, Deborah (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schlagworte:
Public health.
Social policy.
Labor law.
Quality of life.
ISBN:9783319727844
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • The Post WWII America and the High Point of Union Participation
  • What Unions Do for Workers
  • Social and Economic Measures Nationally and by RTW Status
  • Social and Economic Differences: RTW and non-RTW States
  • Measures of Death
  • Early Mortality from Ischemic (Coronary) Heart Disease
  • Premature Unspecified Stroke Mortality
  • Obesity and Diabetes
  • American Child Mortality and Low-Weight Births
  • Taking Risks
  • Resilience
  • Data Sources
  • Index.

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