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Making Capitalism Safe
Donald W. Rogers
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Description for Making Capitalism Safe
Hardback. A broad, historical appraisal of the evolution of work safety and health regulation in the U.S. Series: The Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 296 pages, 12 photographs; 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JHBL; KNXC; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 612.
Workplaces in the United States are safer today than they were 120 years ago. In this book, Donald W. Rogers 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.
Workplaces in the United States are safer today than they were 120 years ago. In this book, Donald W. Rogers 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.
Centering on the most important of these state agencies, the Wisconsin Industrial Commission, Rogers examines how Wisconsin's program operated in practice, what its results were, and how it compared to protective labor law arrangements in Ohio, California, New ... Read more
Rogers shows how safety commissions reconciled technological progress with industrial efficiency, justice, and stability. Connecting this history to the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 1970, Making Capitalism Safe will revise historical understandings of state regulation, compensation insurance, and labor law politics--issues that remain pressing in our time.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
The Working Class in American History
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252034824
SKU
V9780252034824
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About Donald W. Rogers
Donald W. Rogers is a history instructor at Central Connecticut State University and Housatonic Community College and editor of Voting and the Spirit of American Democracy: Essays on the History of Voting and Voting Rights in America.
Reviews for Making Capitalism Safe
"A first-rate political and legal history. . . . Recommended."
Choice "A wonderfully interesting book. Making Capitalism Safe is full of new information on the woefully overlooked and understudied state-level industrial safety apparatus of the twentieth-century United States. This study will be required reading for scholars in fields ranging from business and political history to law, political science, and more."
John Fabian ... Read more
Choice "A wonderfully interesting book. Making Capitalism Safe is full of new information on the woefully overlooked and understudied state-level industrial safety apparatus of the twentieth-century United States. This study will be required reading for scholars in fields ranging from business and political history to law, political science, and more."
John Fabian ... Read more