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Book SynopsisSocializing Security examines the early movement for worker-security legislation in the U.S. The author focuses on a group of academic economists who became leading proponents of social insurance and protective labor legislation during the first decades of the 20th century and founded the American Association for Labor Legislation (AALL).
Trade ReviewBy emphasizing the role of intellectual elites in social policy developments, the book is a timely contribution to the recent literature about the emergence and production of ‘social knowledge’…
Socializing Security is a contribution of great relevance to ongoing theoretical debates as well as to the studies of the development of the American welfare state. -- Isabela Mares * Social Policy *
Socializing Security makes a major contribution to several fields, namely the history of the welfare state in America, the Progressive Era, the intellectual history of economics, and the responses to the industrial revolution… A splendid piece of work. -- John Milton Cooper, Jr., University of Wisconsin–Madison
An important contribution to the ongoing debate over the origins of the modern state. Moss very deftly and very persuasively lays out the significance of the American Association for Labor Legislation for our understanding of labor reform and the rise of the welfare state in the Progressive Era. -- Michael McGerr, Indiana University
