A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation

A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation
ISBN-10
0226251632
ISBN-13
9780226251639
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
348
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Authors
Price V. Fishback, Shawn Everett Kantor

Description

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.

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