A prelude to the welfare state : the origins of workers' compensation / Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor.
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 s...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago, Ill. :
University of Chicago Press,
2006.
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| Series: | NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.
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| 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. In this highly original and persuasive work, Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor challenge widespread historical perceptions, arguing that, rather than being. |
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| Item Description: | Reprint. Originally published: 2000. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-302) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0226251640 9780226251646 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |