04288nam 2200733 a 450 991078485070332120200520144314.01-281-12561-X97866111256150-226-25164-010.7208/9780226251646(CKB)1000000000404623(EBL)408161(OCoLC)261594327(SSID)ssj0000226450(PQKBManifestationID)12059836(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000226450(PQKBWorkID)10257907(PQKB)11241289(DE-B1597)523224(OCoLC)1135587774(DE-B1597)9780226251646(Au-PeEL)EBL408161(CaPaEBR)ebr10453066(CaONFJC)MIL112561(NBER)h0064(MiAaPQ)EBC408161(EXLCZ)99100000000040462319990714d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA prelude to the welfare state[electronic resource] the origins of workers' compensation /Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett KantorChicago University of Chicago Pressc20001 online resource (331 p.)NBER series on long-term factors in economic developmentDescription based upon print version of record.0-226-24984-0 0-226-25163-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-302) and index.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.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.NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.Workers' compensationUnited StatesWorkers' compensationLaw and legislationUnited StatesWorkers' compensationLaw and legislationUnited StatesStatesEmployers' liability insuranceUnited Statesworkers compensation, government, policy, labor, economics, welfare, progressive era, legislation, unemployment insurance, medicare, social security, workplace, liability, nonfiction, accidents, injuries, benefit levels, negligence, wage offsets, saving, management, adoption, law, employers, politics, history, safety, disability.Workers' compensationWorkers' compensationLaw and legislationWorkers' compensationLaw and legislationStates.Employers' liability insurance368.4/1/00973Fishback Price Van Meter1502314Kantor Shawn Everett1562742MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784850703321A prelude to the welfare state3830610UNINA