...Ben Zdencanovic Abstract This essay examines the early life and work of the Russian American social reformer Abraham Epstein, an advocate for old-age pensions and compulsory social insurance whose work as head of the American Association for Social Security helped lead to the passage of the 1935...

... compensation, social insurance and economic security (2). A month later, she pub• lished a similar letter in Social Work Today, a jour• nal of rank-and-file social workers (3). By April the newly organized Interprofessional Association for Social Insurance issued its first pamphlet...

... of cooperative, illicit, and informal economies, coupled irregularly with the stigmatized wage labor of women and children: these mechanisms, although at odds with bourgeois morality, worked as a kind of informal insurance. 4 Then the rise of mass production created a new set of economic pressures...

... movements: union strikes over cuts in health benefits, health-worker sick-outs in response to workplace speedups and rules restricting the practice of medical care, and popular mobilizations for health insurance coverage and the protection of ben- efits. Some...

... to this view, the state's principal role was to insure male heads of families against loss of wages, and directly provide for women and children only in the absence of men4 "New feminism" was thus pitted against the male-breadwinner norm as an organizing vision for social policy. How, if at all, did...

... of Amer- ican Historians and taking advantage of its new membership be- nefit: Professional Liability Insurance. As the organization’s execu- tive secretary Joan Hoff-Wilson explained the insurance plan, it would help ”to protect yourself from a broad range of errors or omissions...

... expectations for old age in industrialized countries increasingly turned on waged work—and retirement from it. For advocates of large-scale systems of economic support for older adults, including old-age pensions and social insurance, the intensity of industrial production seemed to thrust older men...

...-­socialization schemes. The emblematic case (and maybe the most corrosive of Levy’s examples) amounted to self-­enclosure: working people parceling off bits of their own risk and buying them back in the form of personal insurance policies. What we might call the market’s bad dialectic of up and down...

... suit against Aetna Life Insurance Corporation, FleetBoston Financial Services, and CSX Incorporated, a railroad giant, on the grounds that they “know- ingly benefited from a system that enslaved, tortured, starved and exploited human beings.”1...

..., The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule, 136-38. 18. Woodrow Borah,]ustice by Insurance: The General lndian Court of Colonial Mexico and the Legal Aides ofthe Half-Real (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983), 26-27. 19. Gibson, The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule, 146. 42lRADICAL...

... and multiplication of household wage earners. This was the "unemployment insurance" provided in the well- known custom of family wage pooling, the habit of withdrawing POLITICAL ECONOMY OF UNEMPLOYMENT / 193 children from school, and of taking in work or boarders. Like many family...

... overlapping constituencies had pushed for national health insurance throughout the twentieth century, no substantial expansions were won until the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. Beginning in the 1940s, the American Medical Association led a bitter campaign to deride national health insurance...

... for debiting accounts but also for policing purposes such as issuing speeding violations and increasing car insurance fees.16 There is, of course, no reason that E-ZPass tags have to be unique to drivers. They could function instead, for instance, more like disposable phone cards...

...." But to focus on their strikebreaking habits diverts attention from their powerful but ambivalent sense of ethnic soli- darity. Although it often insured their complete submission to French-Canadian leadership, it also produced defiance of any external authority threaten- ing...

..., under the directorship of Paul Buhle and Roger Keeran, to record the experiences of the veterans of radi• calism in labor, politics and culture. The intent is to create a central repository for those interviews that already exist and insure that many activists who have not yet been...

...- quently, President Eisenhower expanded the military classification system to include all government documents. But Eisenhower also believed that far too much material was classified and sought “to insure that no information is withheld from the people of the U.S.which they have a right to know...

... struggles over excavating a buried past. Richard Slotkin investigates the complex interactions of history and myth by analyzing the intersection of Cold War counter-insur- gency ideology with the values and fictive images of the Hol- lywood western. Joshua B. Freeman, Marilyn Halter...

... Silber. Before Silber began winning headlines for his racist remarks and his soaring political fortunes, the ex-phibopher won notice for his breathtaking proposal to raise the university's endowment by means d life insurance policies taken out on its students and alumni. By his calculations...

... November and December of 1929, the Party took a num• ber of organizational steps to insure an improvement in the level of its work among the black community. In the New York District, all Party members involved in Negro work were instructed at a conference to coordinate Party recruitment of black...

... technicians to ensure containment of an insur- gent population. In this situation the concept of private space does not exist, and these buildings and housing areas are subject to repeated military invasion, search procedures, and constant surveillance...