Product Description: Seeking improved health and increased income have long been common goals. Those who make the case that free trade will help everyone argue that the growth from increased trade will be shared and will improve people's lives. But they have not answered the fundamental question of how to formulate trade policy to simultaneously achieve growth and benefit health...read more

Product Description: In the last half-century, radical changes have rippled through the workplace and the home from Boston to Mumbai. In the face of rapid globalization, these changes affect us all, and we can no longer confine ourselves to addressing working and social conditions within our own borders without simultaneously addressing them on a global scale...read more

Product Description: This collection is a product of the Johnson Foundation's Work, Family and Democracy Project and the Work, Family and Democracy Initiative at Harvard U., headed by Heymann (Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School), both of which are based on the idea that is necessary to expand the debate about work and family issues in the Unite...read more

Product Description: A map of the relationship between work and health that is truly global--both geographically and in its coverage of the impact of work on the health of individuals, families, and societies, has not previously been drawn. Global Inequalities at Work is the first book to fill in the map...read more

A passionate, well-written study points a critical finger at government and industry for failing working families and discusses a solution to this growing crisis. Reprint. (view table of contents)

A passionate, well-written study points a critical finger at government and industry for failing working families and discusses a solution to this growing crisis. (view table of contents)

Product Description: One week after graduating with honors from Harvard Medical School, Jody Heymann woke up in an emergency room with no memory of how she got there, and, within hours, was turned from physician into patient. The hospitalization and brain surgery that followed taught her more about the practice of medicine in America than all her years of schooling...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)