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Socializing Security - Progressive-Era Economists and the Origins of American Social Policy (Hardcover, New)
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Socializing Security - Progressive-Era Economists and the Origins of American Social Policy (Hardcover, New)
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Socializing Security examines the early movement for
worker-security legislation in the United States. It focuses on a
group of academic economists who became leading proponents of
social insurance and protective labor legislation during the first
decades of the twentieth century. These economists--including John
R. Commons and Richard T. Ely--founded the American Association for
Labor Legislation (AALL). As intellectuals and political activists,
they theorized about the social efficiency of security legislation,
proposed policies, and drafted model bills. They campaigned
vigorously for industrial safety laws, workers' compensation,
unemployment insurance, and compulsory health insurance. The AALL
reformers were successful in some of their legislative campaigns,
but failed in two of their most important ones, those for
unemployment insurance and health insurance. In examining the
obstacles that the reformers faced, David Moss highlights a variety
of political and institutional constraints, including the
constitutional doctrine of federalism and gender-biased judicial
decisions. The goal of the AALL reformers, Moss demonstrates, was
not to relieve the poor, but rather to prevent workers and their
families from falling into poverty as a result of accidents or
illness. In favoring security over relief, economists in the
progressive era defined and confirmed what has remained, for some
eighty years, one of the essential values of American social
policy. In concluding, Moss suggests that new policies may now be
necessary in an economy in which falling wages and fewer jobs,
rather than industrial hazards, are increasingly to blame for the
precarious situation of the American worker.
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