The insecure American [[electronic resource] ] : how we got here and what we should do about it / / edited by Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman ; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich
| The insecure American [[electronic resource] ] : how we got here and what we should do about it / / edited by Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman ; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (387 p.) |
| Disciplina | 973.93 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GustersonHugh
BestemanCatherine Lowe |
| Soggetto topico |
Security (Psychology) - United States
Nationalism - United States |
| Soggetto non controllato |
american culture
american life american society americans anthropology anxious debt levels drug addiction ethnography gated communities health care system health insurance immigration insecure america insecurity job uncertainty money neoliberalism new economy policy politics poverty punitive governance race in america racial resentments racism safety net terrorism terrorist attacks undocumented immigration united states of america vulnerability wal mart war on drugs war on terror warmaking |
| ISBN | 0-520-94508-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Nation of Gated Communities -- 2. Warmaking as the American Way of Life -- 3. Republic of Fear The Rise of Punitive Governance in America -- 4. Neoliberalism, or The Bureaucratization of the World -- 5. The Age of Wal-Mart -- 6. Deindustrializing Chicago: A Daughter's Story -- 7. Racism, Risk, and the New Color of Dirty Jobs -- 8. Normal Insecurities, Healthy Insecurities -- 9. Cultivating Insecurity: How Marketers Are Commercializing Childhood -- 10. Uneasy Street -- 11. Body and Soul Profits from Poverty -- 12. Useless Suffering The War on Homeless Drug Addicts -- 13. Walling Out Immigrants -- 14. Compounding Insecurity: What the Neocon Core Reveals about America Today -- 15. Deploying Law as a Weapon in America's War on Terror -- 16. Death and Dying in Anxious America -- 17. Get Religion -- contributors -- Index |
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Inside national health reform [[electronic resource] /] / John E. McDonough
| Inside national health reform [[electronic resource] /] / John E. McDonough |
| Autore | McDonough John E (John Edward) |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (367 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.1/0425 |
| Collana | California/Milbank books on health and the public |
| Soggetto topico | Health care reform - United States |
| Soggetto non controllato |
aca
affordable care act america american legislation american politics americans civic economics healthcare health care law health care politics health care reform health policy human condition landmark laws medical history medicine modern historians national health care national policy nonfiction guide policy experts political campaigns political science political public health social history united states us health care |
| ISBN |
1-283-27817-0
9786613278173 0-520-94961-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The knowledge base : why national health reform? -- Social strategy : Massachusetts Avenue -- Political will I : prelude to a health reform campaign -- Political will II : a health reform campaign -- Title I : the three-legged stool -- Title II : Medicaid, CHIP, and the governors -- Title III : medical care, Medicare, and the cost curve -- Title IV : money, mammograms, and menus -- Title V : who will provide the care? -- Title VI : the stew -- Title VII : bio-similar biological products -- Title VIII : class act -- Title IX : paying for the ACA or about half of it -- Title X-plus : the manager's amendment and the reconciliation act. |
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McDonough John E (John Edward)
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The wind doesn't need a passport [[electronic resource] ] : stories from the U.S.-Mexico borderlands / / Tyche Hendricks
| The wind doesn't need a passport [[electronic resource] ] : stories from the U.S.-Mexico borderlands / / Tyche Hendricks |
| Autore | Hendricks Tyche |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.48/209721 |
| Soggetto topico | International relations |
| Soggetto non controllato |
americans
border policies border residents borderlands common grounds controversial cowboys crossing border cultural exchange debated divisive emigration factory workers factual account immigration and immigrants immigration international relations international trade journalism mexicans national conflict nonfiction personal stories political policies united states border united states passport us mexico relations |
| ISBN |
1-282-77273-2
9786612772733 0-520-94550-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Map Of The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands -- Introduction -- One. Elsa: " "We want to hold our kids close forever" -- Two. McAllen/Reynosa "Most people here work in the maquiladoras" -- Three. Hachita: "A fence is only as good as its weakest point" -- Four. Nogales/Nogales: "If they get sick here, we care for them" -- Five. Sells: "O'odham first and American or Mexican second" -- Six. Mexicali: "The wind doesn't need a passport" -- Seven. Jacumba: "The border is a sham" -- Eight. Tijuana: "A constant drumbeat of killings" -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index |
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Hendricks Tyche
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