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 e…
Introduction : Injuries And Abstractions -- Commodification and Recognition within the Tyranny of the Trial -- Injury Impoverished -- Suffering and the Price of Life and Limb -- Suffering and the Price of Life and Limb -- Trampler and Tramped on in the Cherry Mine Fire -- The Di…
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 e…
"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 requir…