A prelude to the welfare state : the origins of workers' compensation /

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Author / Creator:	Fishback, Price Van Meter.
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2000.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	NBER series on long-term factors in economic development NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.
Subject:	Workers' compensation -- United States. Workers' compensation -- Law and legislation -- United States. Workers' compensation -- Law and legislation -- United States -- States. Employers' liability insurance -- United States. Employers' liability insurance. Workers' compensation. Workers' compensation -- Law and legislation. Workers' compensation -- Law and legislation -- U.S. states. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11158344

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Other authors / contributors:	Kantor, Shawn Everett.
ISBN:	9780226251646 0226251640 9780226251639 0226251632 0226251632 9780226249841 9786611125615 6611125612
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-302) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Workers' compensation was arguably the first widespread social insurance program in the United States--before social security, Medicare, or unemployment insurance--and the most successful form of labor legislation to emerge from the early progressive movement. In A Prelude to the Welfare State, Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor challenge widespread historical perceptions by arguing that workers' compensation, rather than being an early progressive victory, succeeded because all relevant parties--labor and management, insurance companies, lawyers, and legislators--benefited from the ruling.
Other form:	Print version: Fishback, Price Van Meter. Prelude to the welfare state. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2000 0226251632 9780226251639

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