Second Report of the Committee on Foreign Inquiry; Social Insurance Department, October 1, 1920 - Tapa blanda
Sinopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920. Excerpt: ... SOCIAL INSURANCE AND THE AMERICAN WAGE-WORKERS. In recent years there has been in the United States something of a movement--or what by political hot-house forcing processes has taken on the appearance of a movement--to promote compulsory state and federal social insurance. Although a decade has elapsed since the spread of the principle from the old Socialist platform over among the body of near Socialists who are inspiring the movement, no state has yet passed any social insurance laws. Official response to agitation for the purpose has come in the appointment of legislative investigating commissions, on sickness insurance mostly, in the principal industrial states, while in about forty of the states there has been little or no action on the subject by the law-making bodies. The movement has usually been initiated by professional uplift or radical political organizations not connected with the trade unions, although the masses of our wage-workers look to the latter as the sole authorized source for the expression of a systematically ascertained agreement in labor sentiment. As is usual with zealous propagandists, the case for sickness insurance especially has been accompanied by insistent claims for its remarkable effectiveness for the amelioration of the lot of the workers in the foreign countries in which it has been tried. Labor in industrial centers now hears itself exhorted, not to pay intelligent attention to the subject, but to pass ready-to-hand resolutions demanding the passage of a theorists' bill providing for compulsory sickness insurance. Some labor organizations have complied. A statement to the wage-workers of the facts foremost in the development and general discussion of the question is therefore timely. Those facts on being clearly seen...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920. Excerpt: ... SOCIAL INSURANCE AND THE AMERICAN WAGE-WORKERS. In recent years there has been in the United States something of a movement--or what by political hot-house forcing processes has taken on the appearance of a movement--to promote compulsory state and federal social insurance. Although a decade has elapsed since the spread of the principle from the old Socialist platform over among the body of near Socialists who are inspiring the movement, no state has yet passed any social insurance laws. Official response to agitation for the purpose has come in the appointment of legislative investigating commissions, on sickness insurance mostly, in the principal industrial states, while in about forty of the states there has been little or no action on the subject by the law-making bodies. The movement has usually been initiated by professional uplift or radical political organizations not connected with the trade unions, although the masses of our wage-workers look to the latter as the sole authorized source for the expression of a systematically ascertained agreement in labor sentiment. As is usual with zealous propagandists, the case for sickness insurance especially has been accompanied by insistent claims for its remarkable effectiveness for the amelioration of the lot of the workers in the foreign countries in which it has been tried. Labor in industrial centers now hears itself exhorted, not to pay intelligent attention to the subject, but to pass ready-to-hand resolutions demanding the passage of a theorists' bill providing for compulsory sickness insurance. Some labor organizations have complied. A statement to the wage-workers of the facts foremost in the development and general discussion of the question is therefore timely. Those facts on being clearly seen...
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