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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Fishback, Price Van Meter
Other Authors: Kantor, Shawn Everett
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Series:NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.
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505 0 |a Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Framing the Issues; Compensation for Accidents before Workers' Compensation; The Economic Impact of the Switch to Workers' Compensation; The Timing of Workers' Compensation's Enactment in the United States; The Political Process of Adopting Workers' Compensation; The Fractitious Disputes over State Insurance; The Battles over Benefit Levels, 1910--1930; Epilogue: Lessons from the Origins of Workers' Compensation; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Appendix E; Appendix F; Appendix G; Appendix H; Appendix I; Appendix J; Appendix K. 
505 8 |a ReferencesIndex. 
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