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

The New Deal placed security at the center of American political and economic life by establishing an explicit partnership between the state, economy, and citizens. In America, unlike anywhere else in the world, most people depend overwhelmingly on private health insurance and employee benefits. The...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Klein, Jennifer
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • CONTENTS; 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, 1940-1960Epilogue: The Limits of Private Security, 1960s-1990s; Notes; Index.