Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law

In the five decades after the Civil War, the United States witnessed a profusion of legal institutions...
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Author: John Fabian Witt
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Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law by Witt, John Fabian

Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law

€82,55

Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law

€82,55
Author: John Fabian Witt
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 cooperative insurance. Leading employers instituted welfare-capitalist accident relief funds. And social reformers advocated compulsory insurance such as workmen's compensation.

John Fabian Witt argues that experiments in accident law at the turn of the twentieth century arose out of competing views of the loose network of ideas and institutions that historians call the ideology of free labor. These experiments a century ago shaped twentieth- and twenty-first-century American accident law; they laid the foundations of the American administrative state; and they occasioned a still hotly contested legal transformation from the principles of free labor to the categories of insurance and risk. In this eclectic moment at the beginnings of the modern state, Witt describes American accident law as a contingent set of institutions that might plausibly have developed along a number of historical paths. In turn, he suggests, the making of American accident law is the story of the equally contingent remaking of our accidental republic.

Author: John Fabian Witt
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 09/01/2006
Pages: 322
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.16w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780674022614

About the Author
Witt, John Fabian: - John Fabian Witt is Professor of Law and History, Columbia University.

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