Injury Impoverished
Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era
Seiten
2020
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-48870-9 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-48870-9 (ISBN)
Combining archival research, critical theory, and gender- and disability-analysis, Nate Holdren argues that Progressive Era reform to employee injury law created new employment discrimination against disabled people and a new injury culture that treated employees and their injuries instrumentally.
The late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US economy maimed and killed employees at an astronomically high rate, while the legal system left the injured and their loved ones with little recourse. In the 1910s, US states enacted workers' compensation laws, which required employers to pay a portion of the financial costs of workplace injuries. Nate Holdren uses a range of archival materials, interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives, and compelling narration to criticize the shortcomings of these laws. While compensation laws were a limited improvement for employees in economic terms, Holdren argues that these laws created new forms of inequality, causing people with disabilities to lose their jobs, while also resulting in new forms of inhumanity. Ultimately, this study raises questions about law and class and about when and whether our economy and our legal system produce justice or injustice.
The late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US economy maimed and killed employees at an astronomically high rate, while the legal system left the injured and their loved ones with little recourse. In the 1910s, US states enacted workers' compensation laws, which required employers to pay a portion of the financial costs of workplace injuries. Nate Holdren uses a range of archival materials, interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives, and compelling narration to criticize the shortcomings of these laws. While compensation laws were a limited improvement for employees in economic terms, Holdren argues that these laws created new forms of inequality, causing people with disabilities to lose their jobs, while also resulting in new forms of inhumanity. Ultimately, this study raises questions about law and class and about when and whether our economy and our legal system produce justice or injustice.
Nate Holdren is Assistant Professor in Law, Politics and Society at Drake University, Iowa.
Introduction: injuries and abstractions; Part I. The Eclipse of Recognition and The Rise of The Tyranny of The Table: 1. Commodification and recognition within the tyranny of the trial; 2. Injury impoverished; 3. Suffering and the price of life and limb; Interlude: trampler and tramped-on in the Cherry Mine fire; Part II. New Machineries of Injustice: 4. The disabling power of law and market; 5. Insuring injustice; 6. Discrimination technicians and human weeding; Conclusion: resistance and aftermath; Coda: narrative, machinery, law.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.12.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises; 2 Tables, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 158 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 570 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-48870-6 / 1108488706 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-48870-9 / 9781108488709 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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