The Accidental Republic : : Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law / / John Fabian Witt.
In the five decades after the Civil War, the United States witnessed a profusion of legal institutions designed to cope with the nation's exceptionally acute industrial accident crisis. Jurists elaborated the common law of torts. Workingmen's organizations founded a widespread system of co...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Crisis of Free Labor
- 2. The Dilemmas of Classical Tort Law
- 3. The Cooperative Insurance Movement
- 4. From Markets to Managers
- 5. Widows, Actuaries, and the Logics of Social Insurance
- 6. The Passion of William Werner
- 7. The Accidental Republic
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index