A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation (National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development)
by Price V. Fishback, Shawn Everett Kantor
A Prelude to the Welfare State explores the origins of workers’ compensation and its role in the development of the welfare state. Framed as an economic history, the book considers the long-term foundations of worker protection and social policy.
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This book examines the origins of workers’ compensation and its relationship to the emergence of the welfare state.
It approaches the subject through the lens of economic history and long-term economic development.
The study focuses on the historical foundations of a major form of social protection for workers.
Written by Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor, it contributes to the National Bureau of Economic Research series on long-term factors in economic development.
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