Socializing Security: Progressive-Era Economists and the Origins of American Social Policy

by David A. Moss

Socializing Security examines the early movement for worker-security legislation in the United States. It focuses on a group of academic economists who became leading proponents of social insurance and protective labor legislation during the first decades of the twentieth century. These economists--including John R. Commons and Richard T. Ely--founded the American Association for Labor Legislation (AALL). As intellectuals and political activists,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674815025
• ISBN13: 9780674815025
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"