TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fishback,Price Van Meter
AU  - Kantor,Shawn Everett
TI  - A prelude to the welfare state: the origins of workers' compensation 
T2  - NBER series on long-term factors in economic development
SN  - 9780226251646 (electronic bk.)
AV  - HD7103.65.U6 F535 2000eb
U1  - 368.4/1/00973 22
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Workers' compensation
KW  - United States
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - States
KW  - Employers' liability insurance
KW  - Travail
KW  - Accidents
KW  - Indemnisation
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Droit
KW  - États
KW  - Assurance de responsabilité des employeurs
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Social Security
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Arbeidsomstandigheden
KW  - gtt
KW  - Ziektekostenverzekering
KW  - სამართალი--
KW  - კანონმდებლობა--
KW  - მშრომელთა კომპენსაცია
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-302) and index; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Framing the Issues; Compensation for Accidents before Workers' Compensation; The Economic Impact of the Switch to Workers' Compensation; The Timing of Workers' Compensation's Enactment in the United States; The Political Process of Adopting Workers' Compensation; The Fractitious Disputes over State Insurance; The Battles over Benefit Levels, 1910 -- 1930; Epilogue: Lessons from the Origins of Workers' Compensation; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Appendix E; Appendix F; Appendix G; Appendix H; Appendix I; Appendix J; Appendix K
N2  - Workers' compensation was arguably the first widespread social insurance program in the United States--before social security, Medicare, or unemployment insurance--and the most successful form of labor legislation to emerge from the early progressive movement. In A Prelude to the Welfare State, Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor challenge widespread historical perceptions by arguing that workers' compensation, rather than being an early progressive victory, succeeded because all relevant parties--labor and management, insurance companies, lawyers, and legislators--benefited from the ruling
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