Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era

ISBN-13: 9781108448666 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 312 str.

Nate Holdren

Opis

Argues that workers' compensation laws created new employment discrimination against disabled people and a new injury culture that treated employees and their injuries instrumentally.

Recenzje

'Meticulous and gripping in equal parts, Injury Impoverished offers a compelling and beautifully written history of the emergence of workers' compensation law in the United States. More than that, however, this book delivers a flash of lightning that illuminates the precise legal contours of the terrifying machine that dismembered and reprocessed the American working class during the first decades of the twentieth century. Essential reading for every cog in the machine.' Rose Sydney Parfitt, Kent Law School, and author of The Process of International Legal Reproduction: Inequality, Historiography, Resistance

Spis treści

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.