For All These Rights Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State

Name: For All These Rights Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State
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ISBN: 9780691126050

ISBN-10: 0691126054

ISBN-13: 9780691126050

Edition: 2003

Authors: Jennifer Klein

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From the early years of the 20th century, America evolved a system of social insurance that came out of the closely linked politics of social provision & industrial relations. This study illuminates the contests to define the ideological & economic meaning of security, in terms of employment, health & pensions.

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/13/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction



Mass Marketing Private Insurance: The Origins of a Private Employee Benefits System, 1910-1933



Industrial Pensions: Efficiency and Security



The New Deal Struggle: Insurers, Employers, and the Politics of Social Security, 1933-1940



Organizing for Health Security: Community, Labor, and New Deal Visions for Health Care and Health Policy, 1930s-1940s



Economic Security on the Home Front: Health Insurance and Pensions during World War II



Managing Security: The Triumph of Group Insurance and the State's Legitimation of the Public-Private Welfare State, 1940-1960



Epilogue: The Limits of Private Security, 1960s-1990s


Notes


Index