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

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Wallace, Deborah (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Wallace, Rodrick (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Public health.; Social policy.; Labor law.; Quality of life.; Public Health.; Social Policy.; Labour Law/Social Law.; Quality of Life Research.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.