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A Prelude to the Welfare State : The Origins of Workers' Compensation (National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Dev)
A Prelude to the Welfare State The Origins of Workers' Compensation - National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Dev
Author: Price V. Fishback, Shawn Everett Kantor
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, unemploymen...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226251639
ISBN-10: 0226251632
Publication Date: 5/1/2000
Pages: 324
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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