Addresses Made at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Liability Insurance Association - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1178076849 ISBN 13 : 9781178076844

Editeur : Nabu Press, 2010

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Address of Miss Crystal Eastman Last summer when Mr. Lawson wrote asking me to give a paper at this Conference, he suggested for my title Workmen s Compensation from the Viewpoint of the Social-W elfare Worker. I resented this title for two reasons. First, because Im not a Social-W elfare Worker Id rather have you know that I am a member of the Barand an officer of the State. Second, because there is no social-welfare workers point of view toward the problems of progress no special point of view, I mean. The social workers point of view is the point of view of the manufacturer when the competitive struggle lets up long enough for him to look rationally upon the life of the community around him of the workman sure of his job, who dares take time to think of the common good of the lawyer old and wise, or young and free enough to consider in his idle moments how a law serves justice, not merely how it helps or hinders him in winning a case of the insurance man, who in the midst of his fight to get risks away from the other fellow, now and then gets a vision of what vast service the insurance business could be to humanity. In short, the social workers point of view is just the average good citizens point of view, if you catch him in a moment when he is altogether free from that self interest which is as a general thing so necessary to his success in the business world it is the point of view of human welfare the common good. And the reason why the social worker takes this point of view all the time, while the average citizen takes it only at his best and freest moments, is that it goes with the social workers job. Now, what I resented was this: that you should assume that the viewpoint of general human welfare belonged exclusively to the social worker, that it was none of the employers business, or the workmans business, or the lawyers business, or the insurance
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nabu Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1178076849
• ISBN 13: 9781178076844
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 100
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible