""For All These Rights," meticulous in its historical research and
forthright in its policy conclusions, is of compelling importance
to all who want a richer understanding of the role of social
insurance in our society. Utilizing a developmental perspective,
Jennifer Klein adds to the body of provocative scholarship that
explores the relationships and tensions between private and public
social and health security programs. She has much to say to
historians, political scientists, economists, and policy analysts,
for in explaining the past she enriches our understanding of the
present and prepares us for the debates that will determine the
further evolution of America's private-public welfare
state."--Rashi Fein, Ph.D., Professor of the Economics of Medicine,
Emeritus, Harvard Medical School
"Jennifer Klein's splendid and deeply researched history of
America's vast private welfare state contains many important
messages for the present. Business increased its commitment to
social welfare when government programs expanded. Private, not
public, benefits have proved inefficient, inflationary, and
unreliable. Business enterprises do not offer a stable, long-term
foundation for benefits. And it is hard to hold them accountable.
This is an essential book for the debate over the redefinition of
the welfare state in this post-Enron age."--Michael B. Katz, Walter
H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
"A brilliant and authoritative account of how today's crisis in
social and economic security came to be. In a breathtakingly
original journey into the heart of America's private health,
welfare, and pension programs, Klein shows that the critical
choices were not justabout whether we had a public or a private
welfare system but what the nature of those systems would
be."--Dorothy Sue Cobble, Professor of Labor Studies, Rutgers
University
"A dazzling excavation of the American welfare state. Jennifer
Klein offers us a grand tour--labor and industry, politics and
business, solidarity and anomie, feminism and paternalism, pensions
and insurance, politics and culture. The result is a formidable
account of the rise and fall of economic security in the United
States."--James Morone, author of "Hellfire Nation" and "The
Democratic Wish"
"This is a wonderful book. Well-written, it combines fresh
research (especially in insurance industry archives) with a careful
and sensible synthesis of the existing literature on social
provision through the years under consideration. "For All These
Rights" will undoubtedly occupy the center of the emerging debate
about America's peculiar 'public/private welfare state.'"--Colin
Gordon, University of Iowa, author of "Dead on Arrival"
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