While America aged
Subtitle: how pension debts ruined General Motors, stopped the NYC subways, bankrupted San Diego, and loom as the next financial crisis
By: Roger Lowenstein.
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781594201677
Subjects: Pensions -- United States -- Finance; Defined benefit pension plans -- United States; Retirement income -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Who owns General Motors?; title: Walter Reuther and the Treaty of Detroit; title: The anti-Reuther; title: The public freight; title: An entitled class; title: On strike; title: Debacle in San Diego; title: Finest city; title: Pension plot; title: : The bill comes due; title: Conclusion : exit strategies; title: Acknowledgements; title: Notes; title: Index.