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Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada / Edition 1
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Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada / Edition 1
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Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada / Edition 1
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Zuberi demonstrates how labor, health, social welfare, and public investment policy affect these hotel workers and their families. His book challenges the myth that globalization necessarily means hospitality jobs must be insecure and pay poverty wages and makes clear the critical role played by government policy in the reduction of poverty and creation of economic equality. Zuberi shows exactly where and how the social policies that distinguish the Canadian welfare state from the U.S. version make a difference in protecting Canadian workers from the hardships that burden low-wage workers in the United States.
, which is filled with first-person accounts, ends with policy recommendations and a call for grassroots community organizing.