A Working Nation: Workers, Work, and Government in the New Economy. (Labor Economics).

A Working Nation: Workers, Work, and Government in the New Economy. By David T. Ellwood, Rebecca M. Blank, Joseph Blasi, Douglas Kruse, William A. Niskanen, and Karen Lynn-Dyson. New York: Russell Sage, 2000. xiv, 188 pp. ISBN 0-87154-264-3, $29.95 (cloth); 0-87154-247-1, $16.95 (paper).

"I've been rich and I've been poor," said singer Sophie Tucker. "Rich is better." All six authors of this volume would undoubtedlyagree. Now, for "rich" and "poor" substitute "skilled" and "unskilled," "educated" and "uneducated," "secure in one's job" and "insecure," "covered by hea