TY  - BOOK
AU  - Witt,John Fabian
TI  - The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law
SN  - 9780674045279
AV  - KF3615 
U1  - 344.7302/1 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Workers' compensation-Law and legislation-United States-History
KW  - Accident law-United States-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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