The accidental republic : crippled workingmen, destitute widows, and the remaking of American law /

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Annotation In the five decades after the Civil War, the United States witnessed a profusion of legal institutions designed to cope with the nation's exceptionally acute industrial accident crisis. Jurists elaborated the common law of torts. Workingmen's organizations founded a widespread s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Witt, John Fabian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2004.
Temas:
Workers' compensation > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Accident law > United States > History.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
LAW > Legal History.
Accident law
Workers' compensation > Law and legislation
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Crippled workingmen, destitute widows, and the crisis of free labor
  • The dilemmas of classical tort law
  • The cooperative insurance movement
  • From markets to managers
  • Widows, actuaries, and the logics of social insurance
  • The passion of William Werner
  • The accidental republic
  • Conclusion.

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