A Prelude to the Welfare State - The Origins of Workers' Compensation (Paperback, New edition)

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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General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economi
Release date:	July 2006
First published:	July 2006
Authors:	Price V. Fishback • Shawn Everett Kantor
Dimensions:	229 x 153 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	324
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-24984-1
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Financial, taxation, commercial, industrial law > Employment & labour law Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
LSN:	0-226-24984-0
Barcode:	9780226249841

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