For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State

by Jennifer Klein

Book Overview

The New Deal placed security at the center of American political and economic life by establishing an explicit partnership between the state, economy, and citizens. In America, unlike anywhere else in the world, most people depend overwhelmingly on private health insurance and employee benefits. The astounding rise of this phenomenon from before World War II, however, has been largely overlooked. In this powerful history of the American reliance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691126054
• ISBN13: 9780691126050
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"