Books by John E. Murray

How did the United States come to have its distinctive workplace-based health insurance system? This book explores the history of health insurance in the US from its roots in the 19th-century sickness funds offered by industrial employers and labour unions to the rise of group plans such as Blue Cross Blue Shield in the mid-twentieth century.

The first public orphanage in America, the Charleston Orphan House saw to the welfare and education of thousands of children from poor white families in the urban South. This book provides an illuminating look at social welfare provision in the antebellum South.