CHAPTER 23. Social Insurance

SOCIAL INSURANCE

REFERENCES.

Adams and Sumner, ch. XII, secs. 6-8.

Baldwin, F. S., Old age pension schemes: a criticism and a program. Q. J. E., 24: 713-742. 1909-1910.

Commons, ch. XXV.

*Commons and Andrews, ch. VIII.

Foerster, R. F., The British national insurance act. Q. J. E., 26: 275-312. 1911-1912.

Frankel, L. K., and Dawson, M. M., Workingmen's insurance in Europe. 1910.

Henderson, C. R., Industrial insurance in the United States. 1909.

Lewis, F. W., State insurance. 1909.

National Civic Federation, Social Insurance Department, Report of the committee on preliminary foreign inquiry. 1915.

Rubinow, I. M., Standards of sickness insurance. J. P. E., 23: 221-251, 327-364, 437-464. 1915.

United States Bureau of Labor, Annual reports, 1908, 1909.

Warren, B. S., and Sydenstricker, Edgar, Health insurance. 1916.

QUESTIONS.

1. Are industrial accidents more frequent in low paid or in high paid occupations?

2. Suggest advantages and disadvantages of a general system of compulsory industrial insurance for old age, sickness and accidents. What are the essential differences between these three forms of insurance?

3. Show to what extent a system of workingmen's insurance has been developed in one of the following countries: Germany, France, Italy, England. In the development of a general system of workingmen's insurance in the U. S., which one of the above forms will probably first come in? For what reasons has a system of this kind not been developed in the U. S.? Henderson, C. R., Industrial insurance.