on America's welfare state
The Organization of American Historians (OAH) has awarded its Ellis W. Hawley Prize to "All These Rights: Business, Labor and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State" by Jennifer Klein, assistant professor of history and Robert Woods Johnson Scholar in Health Policy.
The prize honors the best book-length historical study of the political economy, politics or institutions of the United States, in its domestic or international affairs, from the Civil War to the present.
"All These Rights," published by Princeton University Press, re-examines the origins of America's welfare state and its roots in welfare capitalism.
In its announcement of the award, the OAH describes the book as a "stunning work of political economy" and says: "Klein untangles networks of policy elites as well as their ideas, offering a highly textured reading of the politics of 'security' that recognizes the significance of racial discrimination and the family wage on work and welfare. ... Klein also returns historical contingency to the story by recovering vibrant grassroots and democratic alternatives in community prepaid group practices, government projects and union clinics. In historicizing the current crisis in health insurance and pensions, she exposes the ideological underpinnings of privatization. This is revisionist history at its most productive."
Klein will discuss her book at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 15, at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall St. Following her talk, which is free and open to the public, she will be available to sign copies of the work. For further information, call (203) 432-1134.
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