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DIFFERENCES THAT MATTER

Zuberi Dan

Oprawa:
TWARDA

Wydawca:
Cornell University Press

Data premiery:
2006-04-25

ISBN:
9780801444074

436,80 PLN
Wysyłamy w 35 dni

Opis produktu

Dan Zuberi is Associate Professor of Social Policy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of IDifferences that Matter/I and ICleaning Up/I both from Cornell.Canada and the United States are as similar as any two societies in the worlda natural pairing for comparative analysis. This book shows that the small differences in social and economic policy between them have had significant consequences for lowwage workers. Canadas more generous policies in healthcare social welfare labor protections and stronger unionization ameliorate the impact of growing market inequality on hotel workers in Vancouver compared to hotel workers in Seattle. The message to America: you dont have to be a European social welfare state to give a better life to lowwage workers./Comparing two so similar and proximate cities as Seattle and Vancouver allows the reader to see the effects of manipulating an independent variable social policy on the dependent variables of lifestyle and work satisfaction. IDifferences That Matter/I is well written and accessible speaks to critical issues in labor studies offers a unique crossnational comparison and looks at an industry that many people know but few understand./Dan Zuberis detailed comparative analysis of hotel workers in the United States and Canada pays handsome dividends. By focusing on an industry in which few jobs can be outsourced and which is nevertheless increasingly organized on a global basis he highlights the factors that matter most in shaping the cruel social realities that face working people in the twentyfirst century United States: the systematic dismantling of labor unions and of social safety nets both of which remain intact in Canada. The crossnational comparison is especially apt since the two countries had similar levels of union density and poverty rates only a few decades ago: their recent divergence offers the closest approximation social scientists can ever get to a natural experiment in which it is possible to control for key variables. Zuberi exploits this comparison brilliantly in an accessible narrative that includes the voices of ordinary workers as well as a careful analysis of broader social trends. Theres a lot to learn here for anyone concerned about the future of workers and of the labor movement in North America./Dan Zuberis superb new book comparing immigrant hotel workers and policy regimes in the United States and Canada makes clear that social policy matters immensely in the reduction of working poverty. IDifferences That Matter/I is an elegant piece of narrative social science seamlessly blending interviews data policy analysis and an understanding of politics./IDifferences that Matter/I helps us understand the enormous difference social policies can make in the lives of the working poor. If room attendants in Vancouver fare so much better than those in Seattle who work harder for less it is in part because Canadian and American societ

Data Publikacji: 2006-04-25
Wymiary: 229 mm 152 mm 21 mm 482 gr

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