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Caught in the machinery : workplace accidents and injured workers in nineteenth-century Britain / Jamie L. Bronstein.
LIBRA HD7262.5.G7 B76 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bronstein, Jamie L., 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial accidents--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Workers' compensation--Great Britain--History.
- Workers' compensation--United States--History.
- Workers' compensation.
- History.
- Industrial accidents.
- United States.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- x, 222 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- "Caught In the Machinery" examines the social, legal, cultural and political history of workplace accidents and injured workers in 19th-century Britain and in the broader Anglo-American context.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Not your typical day at the office
- The perils of the workplace
- The options for injured workers
- The cultural meanings of workplace accidents
- The paradox of free labor
- Industrial accidents and state power
- Epilogue: the Anglo-American aftermath.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-218) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804700085
- 0804700087
- OCLC:
- 82172752
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