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Making Capitalism Safe - Workplace Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880-1940 (Hardcover)
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Making Capitalism Safe - Workplace Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880-1940 (Hardcover)
Series: Working Class in American History
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Workplaces in the United States are safer today than they were 120
years ago. In this book, Donald W. Rogers attributes this
improvement partly to the development in the Progressive Era of
surprisingly strong state-level work safety and health regulatory
agencies, a patchwork of commissions and labor departments that
advanced safety law from common-law negligence to the modern system
of administrative regulation. Centering on the most important of
these state agencies, the Wisconsin Industrial Commission, Rogers
examines how Wisconsin's program operated in practice, what its
results were, and how it compared to protective labor law
arrangements in Ohio, California, New York, Illinois, and Alabama.
He illuminates the achievements of these agencies, including their
integration of workers compensation and commission regulation (two
bedrocks of modern occupational safety law), as well as their
establishment of worker-employer advisory committees,
administrative safety codes, a "safety first" ethic, and
"prevailing good practices" in modernizing firms. He also reveals
the mixed success that these bodies met in their code enforcement
efforts and industrial health initiatives. Rogers shows how safety
commissions reconciled technological progress with industrial
efficiency, justice, and stability. Connecting this history to the
creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in
1970, Making Capitalism Safe will revise historical understandings
of state regulation, compensation insurance, and labor law
politics--issues that remain pressing in our time.
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