A Prelude to the Welfare State
Subtitle: The Origins of Workers' Compensation (National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Dev)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: May 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780226251639
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Economic history; Welfare & benefit systems; Work & labour; Unemployment And Disability Insurance; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; Business/Economics; USA; Government - U.S. Government; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; United States - 20th Century; Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations; Insurance - General; Labor; Insurance, Employers' liabilit; Law and legislation; States; United States; Workers' compensation
First sentence: In 1916 Jim Hurd went to work at the Roda No. 2 mine in Virginia.