Injury impoverished : workplace accidents, capitalism, and law in the Progressive Era / Nate Holdren, Drake University.
2020
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Author
Title
Injury impoverished : workplace accidents, capitalism, and law in the Progressive Era / Nate Holdren, Drake University.
Imprint
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Description
xvii, 292 pages ; 24 cm.
Series
Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : Injuries and abstractions
Part I. The eclipse of recognition and the rise of the tyranny of the table
Commodification and recognition within the tyranny of the trial
Injury impoverished
Suffering and the price of life and limb
Interlude: Tramped on and trampler in the Cherry Mine fire
Part II. New machineries of injustice
The disabling power of law and market
Insuring injustice
Discrimination technicians and human weeding
Conclusion: Resistance and aftermath
Coda: Narrative, machinery, law
Part I. The eclipse of recognition and the rise of the tyranny of the table
Commodification and recognition within the tyranny of the trial
Injury impoverished
Suffering and the price of life and limb
Interlude: Tramped on and trampler in the Cherry Mine fire
Part II. New machineries of injustice
The disabling power of law and market
Insuring injustice
Discrimination technicians and human weeding
Conclusion: Resistance and aftermath
Coda: Narrative, machinery, law
Summary
"The late nineteenth and early twentieth century U.S. 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, U.S. states enacted workers' compensation laws, which required employers to pay a portion of the financial costs of workplace injuries. This book 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 in economic terms for employees, this book argues that these laws created new forms of inequality, by causing people with disabilities to lose their jobs, as well as new forms of inhumanity, by treating deeply personal suffering losses in an impersonal and economic manner. Ultimately the book raises questions about law and class, and about when and whether our economy and our legal system produce justice or injustice"-- Provided by publisher
Note
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral - University of Minnesota, 2014) issued under title: 'The compensation law put us out of work' : workplace injury law, commodification, and discrimination in the early 20th century United States.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Law & History Foundation Seminar by Tomlins (FALL 2024)
Law & History Foundation Seminar by Tomlins (FALL 2025)
Law & History Foundation Seminar by Tomlins (FALL 2025)
Call Number
KF3615 .H55 2020
Language
English
ISBN
9781108488709 (hardcover)
1108488706 (hardcover)
9781108448666 (paperback)
1108448666 (paperback)
9781108657730 (electronic publication)
9781108591560 (electronic book)
1108488706 (hardcover)
9781108448666 (paperback)
1108448666 (paperback)
9781108657730 (electronic publication)
9781108591560 (electronic book)
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