A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation

by Price V. Fishback, Shawn Everett Kantor, Price Van Meter Fishback

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226251632
• ISBN13: 9780226251639
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"