Wealhtheow’s Reviews > The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy > Status Update

2006 Ulrich et al: Among more than 1500 nurse practitioners and physician's assistants, 67% reported that in the last year health care policies had threatened the availability of care they could provide, and 58% reported encountering health care policies that threatened the quality of care.

Managers pay workers too little to pay for substitute care for children/elderly, maintain stable housing, then complain when disruptions due to moving/homelessness/sick children/no childcare disrupt their work. If the wages you pay guarantee these disruptions will take place, how is that only the employees' problem? It's built into the labor market!

In America business "has free rein, can freely undermine the public good, and can freely buy and sell political will...This book uncovers the parallel story, the one about resistance...the proud history of how people will refuse to go along with economic abuse--and not just the few heroes we recall. Heroes alone don't shift the ground. Deep change comes only when regular people start naming what is happening...