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Injury Impoverished - Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era (Hardcover)
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Injury Impoverished - Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
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The late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US economy maimed
and killed employees at an astronomically high rate, while the
legal system left the injured and their loved ones with little
recourse. In the 1910s, US states enacted workers' compensation
laws, which required employers to pay a portion of the financial
costs of workplace injuries. Nate Holdren uses a range of archival
materials, interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives, and
compelling narration to criticize the shortcomings of these laws.
While compensation laws were a limited improvement for employees in
economic terms, Holdren argues that these laws created new forms of
inequality, causing people with disabilities to lose their jobs,
while also resulting in new forms of inhumanity. Ultimately, this
study raises questions about law and class and about when and
whether our economy and our legal system produce justice or
injustice.
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