A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation by Price V. Fishback, Shawn Everett Kantor

A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation

National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Fac

Price V. Fishback, Shawn Everett Kantor

324 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
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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, wo...

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