Jennifer Klein to deliver A. C. Mildred Thompson Lecture, Tuesday, October 24, 2006

The Struggle for Security
A History of Health Insurance and Social Security in Modern America

A. C. Mildred Thompson Lecture by
Jennifer Klein
Robert Wood Johnson Scholar
and Assistant Professor of History
Yale University

Tuesday, October 24, 2006
5:30 p.m.
Sanders Auditorium

Professor Klein teaches courses in labor history, twentieth century political economy, urban history and contemporary America, 1945 Present. She is also affiliated with the Yale program in The History of Medicine and Science and the Women’s Studies program. Her book, For All These Rights: Business, Labor and the Making of America’s Public-Private Welfare State (2003), won the Ellis. W. Hawley Prize in Political History/Political Economy from the Organization of American Historians and. The Hagley Prize in Business History from the Business History Conference. Professor Klein recently completed a two-year fellowship with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She is currently working on the history of home health care workers, exploring the links between public welfare, health care and employment law.

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This article was posted on Monday, October 23rd, 2006.