A prelude to the welfare state : the origins of workers' compensation /
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| Author / Creator: | Fishback, Price Van Meter. |
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| 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. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11158344 |
| Summary: | Workers' compensation was arguably the first widespread social insurance program in the United States and the most successful form of labor legislation to emerge from the early Progressive Movement. Adopted in most states between 1910 and 1920, workers' compensation laws have been paving seen as the way for social security, Medicare, unemployment insurance, and eventually the broad network of social welfare programs we have today.<br> <br> In this highly original and persuasive work, Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor challenge widespread historical perceptions, arguing that, rather than being an early progressive victory, workers' compensation succeeded because all relevant parties--labor and management, insurance companies, lawyers, and legislators--benefited from the legislation. Thorough, rigorous, and convincing, A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation is a major reappraisal of the causes and consequences of a movement that ultimately transformed the nature of social insurance and the American workplace. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-302) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226251646 0226251640 9780226251639 0226251632 9780226249841 9786611125615 6611125612 |