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(2,000 word essay Chicago Style) Utilizing evidence from the assigned readings by 

Sanford Jacoby, Jennifer Klein (both selections), Mark Leff, and Alan Derickson, write a coherent essay explaining the emergence and evolution of a “mixed” public-private system for economic security and welfare in the United States from the 1910s through the 1950s.  Why did a select group of companies introduce welfare-capitalist measures for their employees in the years prior to the Great Depression?  Initially, what kinds of benefits did these employers offer?  In what ways did early welfare capitalism influence the development of New Deal programs to enhance economic security and welfare?  What was the role of organized labor in influencing the development of measures to provide greater economic security?  What were the characteristics of the “mixed” system for economic security and welfare that had taken root in the United States by the middle of the twentieth century?