ABSTRACT
The issue of insecurity necessarily involves a discussion of an American approach to the poor and to welfare. Isaac Max Rubinow seems to have been unusual in that he had direct knowledge of the different solutions available to the problem of insecurity. Rubinow is highlighted first for his importance as a figure in the early twentieth century history of social security in the United States, and second because of his particular perspective on security. William Beveridge identified pillars and conditions of security in different ways. In The Pillars of Security, Beveridge identified pillars and conditions of security in different ways. If the story of individual security is largely about the protection to the individual offered by the entities, it must be seen as a story that is to be told differently at different times and in different places.
