A Prelude to the Welfare State

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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