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

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2003
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Politics and Society in Modern America ; 65
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 10 halftones. 1 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Mass Marketing Private Insurance: The Origins of a Private Employee Benefits System, 1910-1933
  • Chapter 2. Industrial Pensions: Efficiency and Security
  • Chapter 3. The New Deal Struggle: Insurers, Employers, and the Politics of Social Security, 1933-1940
  • Chapter 4. Organizing for Health Security: Community, Labor, and New Deal Visions for Health Care and Health Policy, 1930s-1940s
  • Chapter 5. Economic Security on the Home Front: Health Insurance and Pensions during World War II
  • Chapter 6. Managing Security: The Triumph of Group Insurance and the State's Legitimation of the Public-Private Welfare State, 1940-1960
  • Chapter 7. Epilogue: The Limits of Private Security, 1960s-1990s
  • Notes
  • Index