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...
Workers compensation was arguably the first widespread social insurance program in the United States before social security, Medicare, or unemployment...
After the American Civil War, agricultural reformers in the South called for an end to unrestricted grazing of livestock on unfenced land. They advocated the stock law, which required livestock owners to fence in their animals, arguing that the existing system (in which farmers built protective fences around crops) was outdated and inhibited economic growth. The reformers steadily won their battles, and by the end of the century the range was on the way to being closed. In this original study, Kantor uses economic analysis to show that, contrary to traditional historical interpretation,...
After the American Civil War, agricultural reformers in the South called for an end to unrestricted grazing of livestock on unfenced land. They advoca...
