Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Couverture rigide

Bronstein, Jamie L

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0804700087 ISBN 13 : 9780804700085

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jamie L. Bronstein is Associate Professor of History at New Mexico State University. She is the author of Land Reform and Working-Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800-1862 (Stanford, 1999)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804700087
• ISBN 13: 9780804700085
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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