For All These Rights

For All These Rights Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State

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 astounding rise of this phenomenon from before World War II, however, has been largely overlooked. In this powerful history of the American reliance on employment-based benefits, Jennifer Klein examines the interwoven politics of social provision and labor relations from the 1910s to the 1960s. 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, she 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.
Sign up to use

This book appears on the shelf book-club

Mexican Gothic
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Little Brother
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Ancillary Justice
Ancillary Justice
Carmilla
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Fevre dream
Fevre dream by George R.R. Martin
Roadside Picnic
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky

This book appears on the shelf Fiction

Endure
Endure by Carrie Jones
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
Uglies
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Dark Beyond the Stars
The Dark Beyond the Stars by Frank M. Robinson
Here and Now and Then
Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen

This book appears on the shelf Adventure

Ready Player One
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Da Vinci Code
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Inferno
Inferno by Dan Brown
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Alchemist
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho