Unemployment Insurance in the United States

The First Half Century

Blaustein offers the definitive summary of the U.S. unemployment insurance system. This is the first of a two-volume update of Haber and Murray's Unemployment Insurance in the American Economy.

"(Blaustein) has succeeded in producing a volume that gives an understandable, precise and contemporary overview of unemployment insurance in the United States. It is easily accessible to undergraduates, and should prove to be a durable guide to the unemployment insurance system. This book is a must." Eastern Economic Journal

"An enormous achievement. For anyone with an interest in unemployment insurance anywhere in the world." Benefits & Compensation International

1. The Changing Unemployment Problem and Its Implications for Unemployment Insurance
2. The Broad Objectives of Unemployment Insurance
3. The Insurance Character of Unemployment Insurance
4. Foreign Experience with Unemployment Insurance
5. American Forerunners and Early Attempts at Legislation
6. The Social Security Act of 1935
7. Beginnings
8. Growth
9. The Federal System Under Financial Strain
10. State Laws Evolve
11. Epilogue

367 pp. 1993
$55 cloth ISBN 0-88099-136-4 / ISBN-13 978-0-88099-136-0
$25 paper ISBN 0-88099-135-6 / ISBN-13 978-0-88099-135-3.