A Prelude to the Welfare State

The Origins of Workers' Compensation

By: Price V. Fishback, Shawn Everett Kantor

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Paperback | 15 July 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Workers' compensation was arguably the first widespread social insurance program in the United States-before social security, Medicare, or unemployment insurance-and the most successful form of labor legislation to emerge from the early progressive movement.

In A Prelude to the Welfare State, Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor challenge widespread historical perceptions by arguing that workers' compensation, rather than being an early progressive victory, succeeded because all relevant parties-labor and management, insurance companies, lawyers, and legislators-benefited from the ruling. Rigorous and convincing, A Prelude to the Welfare State is a major reappraisal of the causes and consequences of a movement that ultimately transformed the nature of social insurance and the American workplace.

"Substantial, well-written, and compelling. . . . The end result is an in-depth analysis of how workers' compensation was created and initially implemented in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century"-Christopher R. Larrison, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare

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"This is surely the very best book ever written about the passage of workers' compensation, an instant 'classic' in historical political economy." - Robert A. Margo, Southern Economic Journal "Substantial, well-written, and compelling.... The end result is an in-depth analysis of how workers' compensation was created and initially implemented in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century." - Christopher R. Larrison, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare"

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Framing the Issues
Compensation for Accidents before Workers’ Compensation
The Economic Impact of the Switch to Workers’ Compensation
The Timing of Workers’ Compensation’s Enactment in the United States
The Political Process of Adopting Workers’ Compensation
The Fractious Disputes over State Insurance
The Battles over Benefit Levels, 1910-1930
Epilogue: Lessons from the Origins of Workers’ Compensation
Accident Reporting under the Negligence System
Workers’ Compensation Benefits and the Construction of the Expected Benefits Variable
Measuring the Change in Accident Benefits from Negligence Liability to Workers’ Compensation
Econometric Analysis Used to Estimate Wage Offsets
A Model of Insurance Consumption and Saving behavior
An Econometric Analysis of the Effect of Increased Expected Benefits on Saving and Insurance behavior
Employers’ Liability Laws
Discrete-Time Hazard Analysis of the Timing of Adoption across the United States
Data Sources and Descriptions of Quantitative Variables
State versus Private Insurance: An Ordered-Probit Analysis of the State’s Choice
A Quantitative Analysis of Workers’ Compensation Benefit Levels
References
Index
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