The Accidental Republic : Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law.
Witt, John Fabian.
The Accidental Republic : Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (322 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Crisis of Free Labor -- 2. The Dilemmas of Classical Tort Law -- 3. The Cooperative Insurance Movement -- 4. From Markets to Managers -- 5. Widows, Actuaries, and the Logics of Social Insurance -- 6. The Passion of William Werner -- 7. The Accidental Republic -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Witt argues that experiments in accident law at the turn of the 20th century arose out of competing views of the loose network of ideas and institutions that historians call the ideology of free labor. These experiments a century ago shaped 20th- and 21st-century American accident law and laid the foundations of the American administrative state.
9780674045279
Workers' compensation-Law and legislation-United States-History.
Accident law-United States-History.
Electronic books.
KF3615
344.7302/1
The Accidental Republic : Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (322 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Crisis of Free Labor -- 2. The Dilemmas of Classical Tort Law -- 3. The Cooperative Insurance Movement -- 4. From Markets to Managers -- 5. Widows, Actuaries, and the Logics of Social Insurance -- 6. The Passion of William Werner -- 7. The Accidental Republic -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Witt argues that experiments in accident law at the turn of the 20th century arose out of competing views of the loose network of ideas and institutions that historians call the ideology of free labor. These experiments a century ago shaped 20th- and 21st-century American accident law and laid the foundations of the American administrative state.
9780674045279
Workers' compensation-Law and legislation-United States-History.
Accident law-United States-History.
Electronic books.
KF3615
344.7302/1