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The employee retirement income security act of 1974 : a political history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wooten, James A., 1958-
Corporate Author: Milbank Memorial Fund
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : New York : Washington, D.C. : University of California Press ; Milbank Memorial Fund ; Employee Benefit Research Institute, [2004]
Series:California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 11.
Subjects:
United States. > Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 > History.
Pension trusts > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Pension trusts > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Policy-making for private pensions : the genesis and structure of a policy domain
  • "The most glorious story of failure in the business" : the Studebaker-Packard Corporation and the origins of ERISA
  • "The 'bible' in this field" : the President's Committee on Corporate Pension Funds and the origins of ERISA
  • "A new legislative era in this country" : pension reform from blueprint to bill
  • "A major American institution, built upon human disappointment" : agenda-setting in the U.S. Senate
  • A green light in the Senate
  • A donnybrook in the House
  • Enacting ERISA.