Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State By Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein Oxford, 2012, 320 pp. Caring for America—part feminist critique of the welfare state, part labor history, part organizing case study—is the …
With health care the number-two priority of voters-behind jobs but still before terrorism-hopes are riveted on the 2004 election for reform that would extend coverage to forty-five million uninsured and safeguard the care of those lucky enough already to have …
The bastardized curse “may you live in interesting times” has a special poignancy for any organizer living in uninteresting ones. An “interesting time,” for better or worse, is one of upheaval—a period when large movements of ordinary people can create …
