Caught in the machinery : workplace accidents and injured workers in nineteenth-century Britain
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Caught in the machinery : workplace accidents and injured workers in nineteenth-century Britain
Stanford University Press, 2008
- : cloth
Available at 6 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-218) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Caught in the Machinery draws on social, cultural, and legal history to bring to life the dangers facing working people in Great Britain between 1800 and the first British Employer's Liability Act of 1880. Autobiographies, songs, and broadsides provide a window onto the cultural meanings of workplace accidents and contrast those meanings with the views of humanitarian onlookers and the Victorian press. The book is uniquely attentive to the broader Anglo-American context; in the nineteenth century, Great Britain and the United States shared a common-law regime that was singularly unfriendly to workers, but each country eventually developed workers' compensation in response to very different sets of pressures.
Table of Contents
Contents Acknowledgme nts ix Introduction: Not Your Typical Day at the Office 1 1 The Perils of the Workplace 0 2 The Options for Injured Workers 00 3 The Cultural Meanings of Workplace Accidents 00 4 The Paradox of Free Labor 000 5 Industrial Accidents and State Power 000 Epilogue: The Anglo-American Aftermath 000 Notes 000 Index 000
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