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The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law
The Accidental Republic Crippled Workingmen Destitute Widows and the Remaking of American Law
Author: John Fabian Witt
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674022614
ISBN-10: 0674022610
Publication Date: 9/30/2006
Pages: 322
Edition: New Ed
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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