A prelude to the welfare state : the origins of workers' compensation / / Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor
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| Autore: |
Fishback Price Van Meter
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| Titolo: |
A prelude to the welfare state : the origins of workers' compensation / / Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2000 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (331 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 368.4/1/00973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Workers' compensation - United States |
| Workers' compensation - Law and legislation - United States | |
| Workers' compensation - Law and legislation - United States - States | |
| Employers' liability insurance - United States | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | workers 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 |
| Altri autori: |
KantorShawn Everett
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-302) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A prelude to the welfare state |
| ISBN: | 1-281-12561-X |
| 9786611125615 | |
| 0-226-25164-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822142303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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