A prelude to the welfare state the origins of workers' compensation / [electronic resource] :
Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor.
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2000.
- xiii, 316 p.
- NBER series on long-term factors in economic development .
- NBER series on long-term factors in economic development. .
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Workers' compensation--United States. Workers' compensation--Law and legislation--United States. Workers' compensation--Law and legislation--States.--United States Employers' liability insurance--United States.