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A Prelude to the Welfare State
Price V. Fishback
Shawn Everett Kantor
其他書名
The Origins of Workers' Compensation
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 2007-11-01
主題
Political Science / General
Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations
History / United States / 20th Century
ISBN
0226251640
9780226251646
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=96Bl65o7QscC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Workers' compensation was arguably the first widespread social insurance program in the United States and the most successful form of labor legislation to emerge from the early Progressive Movement. Adopted in most states between 1910 and 1920, workers' compensation laws have been paving seen as the way for social security, Medicare, unemployment insurance, and eventually the broad network of social welfare programs we have today.
In this highly original and persuasive work, Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor challenge widespread historical perceptions, arguing that, rather than being an early progressive victory, workers' compensation succeeded because
all
relevant parties—labor and management, insurance companies, lawyers, and legislators—benefited from the legislation. Thorough, rigorous, and convincing,
A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation
is a major reappraisal of the causes and consequences of a movement that ultimately transformed the nature of social insurance and the American workplace.