A prelude to the welfare state : the origins of workers' compensation / Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fishback, Price Van Meter.

Contributor:

Kantor, Shawn Everett.

Series:

NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.

NBER series on long-term factors in economic development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Workers' compensation--United States.

Workers' compensation.

Workers' compensation--Law and legislation--United States.

Workers' compensation--Law and legislation--United States--States.

Employers' liability insurance--United States.

Employers' liability insurance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. Framing the issues

2. Compensation for accidents before Workers' Compensation

3. The economic impact of the switch to Workers' Compensation

4. The timing of Workers' Compensation's enactment in the United States

5. The political process of adopting Workers' Compensation

6. The fractious disputes over state insurance

7. The battles over benefit levels, 1910-1930

8. Epilogue : lessons from the origins of Workers' Compensation.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-302) and index.

ISBN:

9786611125615

9781281125613

128112561X

9780226251646

0226251640

OCLC:

261594327