A prelude to the welfare state [electronic resource] : the origins of workers' compensation / Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor.
Series: NBER series on long-term factors in economic developmentPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2000.Description: xiii, 316 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 368.4/1/00973 21
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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.
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