For All These Rights
Subtitle: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: May 6, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780691070568
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Welfare & benefit systems; Retirement income; Personal Finance - Retirement Planning; Old age pensions; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Business/Economics; USA; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Public Policy - Social Security; American History; History / United States / 20th Century; Sociology; Economic policy; United States; Personal Finance - Investing; Pensions
First sentence: EARLY in the twenty-first century some of America's best-known corporations went bankrupt or teetered close to the edge of economic viability.
Description: "Through a narrative that connects the commercial life insurance industry, the politics of Social Security, organized labor's quest for economic security, and the evolution of modern health insurance, Jennifer Klein shows how the firm-centered welfare system emerged. Moreover, the imperatives of industrial relations, Klein argues, shaped public and private social security." "Looking closely at unions and communities, Klein uncovers the wide range of alternative, community-based health plans that had begun to germinate in the 1930s and 1940s but that eventually succumbed to commercial health insurance and pensions. She also illuminates the contests to define "security"--Job security, health security, and old age security - following World War II." "For All These Rights traces the fate of the New Deal emphasis on social entitlement as the private sector competed with and emulated Roosevelt's Social Security program. Through the story of struggles over health security and old age security, social rights and the welfare state, it traces the fate of New Deal liberalism - as a set of ideas about the state, security, and labor rights - in the 1950s, the 1960s, and beyond."--Jacket.