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

Name: Accidental Republic Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law
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ISBN: 9780674022614

ISBN-10: 0674022610

ISBN-13: 9780674022614

Edition: 2004

Authors: John Fabian Witt

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In the five decades after the Civil War, the United States witnessed a profusion of legal institutions designed to cope with the nation's exceptionally acute industrial accident crisis. Jurists elaborated the common law of torts. Workingmen's organizations founded a widespread system of cooperative insurance. Leading employers instituted welfare-capitalist accident relief funds. And social reformers advocated compulsory insurance such as workmen's compensation. John Fabian Witt argues that experiments in accident law at the turn of the twentieth century arose out of competing views of the loose network of ideas and institutions that historians call the ideology of free labor. These…

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List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 322
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

John Fabian Witt is Professor of Law and History, Columbia University.



Introduction



Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Crisis of Free Labor



The Dilemmas of Classical Tort Law



The Cooperative Insurance Movement



From Markets to Managers



Widows, Actuaries, and the Logics of Social Insurance



The Passion of William Werner



The Accidental Republic


Conclusion


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index