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The Accidental Republic : Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (322 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674045279
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Accidental RepublicDDC classification:
  • 344.7302/1
LOC classification:
  • KF3615
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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