Fishback, Price Van Meter.

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.


Electronic books.

HD7103.65.U6 / F535 2000

368.4/1/00973