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A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation
Contributor(s): Fishback, Price V. (Author), Kantor, Shawn Everett (Author)

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 ISBN: 0226249840     ISBN-13: 9780226249841
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Published: July 2006
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Annotation: 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. Rigorous and convincing, "A Prelude to the Welfare State "is a major reappraisal of the causes and consequences of a movement that ultimately transformed the nature of social insurance and the American workplace.
"Substantial, well-written, and compelling. . . . The end result is an in-depth analysis of how workers' compensation was created and initially implemented in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century"--Christopher R. Larrison, "Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations
- History | United States - 20th Century
- Political Science | American Government - General
Dewey: 368.410
Series: National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Fac
Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6.08" W x 9" L (0.98 lbs) 324 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Chronological Period - 1920's
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
 
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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. Rigorous and convincing, A Prelude to the Welfare State is a major reappraisal of the causes and consequences of a movement that ultimately transformed the nature of social insurance and the American workplace.

"Substantial, well-written, and compelling. . . . The end result is an in-depth analysis of how workers' compensation was created and initially implemented in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century"--Christopher R. Larrison, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare

 
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