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Making capitalism safe : work safety and health regulation in America, 1880-1940 / Donald W. Rogers.

Title
Making capitalism safe : work safety and health regulation in America, 1880-1940 / Donald W. Rogers.
Author
Rogers, Donald W. (Donald Wayne)
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.

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viii, 275 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Workplaces in the United States are safer today than they were a hundred and twenty years ago. The author attributes this improvement partly to the development in the Progressive Era of surprisingly strong state-level work safety and health regulatory agencies, a patchwork of commissions and labor departments that advanced safety law from common-law negligence to the modern system of administrative regulation. This book examines the Wisconsin Industrial Commission and compares it to arrangements in Ohio, California, New York, Illinois, and Alabama. Connecting this history to the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 1970, this book aims to revise historical understandings of state regulation, compensation insurance, and labor law politics.
Series Statement
Working class in American history
Uniform Title
Working class in American history
Subject
  • Geschichte 1880-1940
  • Industrial welfare > History. > United States
  • Industrial safety > History. > United States
  • Industrial hygiene > History. > United States
  • Industry > history
  • Safety > history
  • Public Policy > history
  • Legislation as Topic
  • History, 19th Century
  • History, 20th Century
  • United States
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-274) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
From common law to factory laws -- The administrative transformation of work safety and health law -- Selling the safety spirit -- The first safety codes -- The club of the law -- Politics and work safety education in the interwar economy -- The technocrats take command -- The limits of law enforcement -- The troubled campaign against occupational disease.
ISBN
  • 9780252034824 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0252034821 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2009026688
OCLC
317923165
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library