The accidental republic : crippled workingmen, destitute widows, and the remaking of American law /
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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2004.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.