The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 : A Political History /

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Wooten explains in detail how public officials overcame strong opposition from business & organised labour to pass landmark legislation regulating employer-sponsored retirement & health plans. He looks at how the case for reform was taken directly to voters by the mobilisation of the media &...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wooten, James A., 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : University of California Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
Pension trusts > Law and legislation
Pension trusts
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Pension trusts > United States > History.
Pension trusts > Law and legislation > United States > History.
United States
History
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Policy-making for private pensions : the genesis and structure of a policy domain
  • "The most glorious story of failure in the business" : the Studebaker-Packard corporation and the origins of ERISA
  • "The 'bible' in this field" : the president's committee on corporate pension funds and the origins of ERISA
  • "A new legislative era in this country" : pension reform from blueprint to bill
  • "A major American institution, built upon human disappointment" : agenda-setting in the U.S. Senate
  • A green light in the Senate
  • A donnybrook in the House
  • Enacting ERISA.

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