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# The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law ↠ PDF Download by * John Fabian Witt eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law And social reformers advocated compulsory insurance such as workmen's compensation. In turn, he suggests, the making of American accident law is the story of the equally contingent remaking of our accidental republic.. These experiments a century ago shaped twentieth- and twenty-first-century American accident law; they laid the foundations of the American administrative state; and they occasioned a still hotly contested legal transformation from the principles of free labor to the categories of
| Title | : | The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.65 (911 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674012674 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 322 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-27 |
| Language | : | English |
But it is also about much more. (Robert Forrant Labor History 2005-08-01)The Accidental Republic is a book about the origins of workmen's compensation, and it is probably the best book we will ever get on the subject. It is about the relationship between risk and industrial capitalism, about whether fingers are worth thirty dollars or sixty dollars, and about the political representation of pain--how it has been measured, commodified, expressed, and silenced. Emerging from legal history, Accidental Republic offers a broad political narrative that explores how Americans confronted the hazards and insecurities of industr
And social reformers advocated compulsory insurance such as workmen's compensation. In turn, he suggests, the making of American accident law is the story of the equally contingent remaking of our accidental republic.. These experiments a century ago shaped twentieth- and twenty-first-century American accident law; they laid the foundations of the American administrative state; and they occasioned a still hotly contested legal transformation from the principles of free labor to the categories of insurance and risk. Leading employers instituted welfare-capitalist accident relief funds. Workingmen's organizations founded a widespread system of cooperative insurance. I
Worthy of your Attention While we are in the midst of an apparently profound decline in the fortunes of the working class in America, no book portends so much promise as this one. I, for one, am grateful for the faithfulness with which the conflicts of a century past are rendered. They remain more than pertinent today.Witt describes the confluence of forces that resulted in a profound reconceptualization of the post-Civil War thinking of how workers are free. Then, liberated from slavery, to be the masters of the own destiny, working people revelled in the idea of their own supposed liberation, free to un. Engrossing and illuminating book D. K. Citron Witt's book is the best of its kind -- it illuminates the history and legal developments of the turn-of-the-century modern factories and their beleagured workers with stories of the historical players, the thinkers, and the judges and legislators. Witt is accessible to all and I have not stopped thinking about the book and its significance to today's tort laws since.. Enlightening but technical This book describes the development of the workers’ compensation system in the United States. That sounds like a boring topic unless you are a legal or social science wonk. To a large extent, that is an accurate description. There are a lot of statistics, a lot of comparisons among various states and industries, a lot of studies and legal cases.What I found fascinating among all the data was how very different the very idea of employment was in the 19th century. The U.S. had no workplace safety regulation, and the vast majority of workers wanted it that way. Working under pa
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