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Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Product Description
"Caught in the Machinery" draws on social, cultural, and legal history to bring to life the dangers facing working people in Great Britain between 1800 and the first British Employer's Liability Act of 1880. Autobiographies, songs, and broadsides provide a window onto the cultural meanings of workplace accidents and contrast those meanings with the views of humanitarian onlookers and the Victorian press. The book is uniquely attentive to the broader Anglo-American context; in the nineteenth century, Great Britain and the United States shared a common-law regime that was singularly unfriendly to workers, but each country eventually developed workers' compensation in response to very different sets of pressures.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1365064 in Books
- Published on: 2007-11-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 240 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Caught in the Machinery combines legal analysis and social detail to present the consequences of workplace accidents in a fresh context. Jamie Bronstein's excellent scholarship sheds new light on the Victorian origins of the welfare state." - Richard Cosgrove, University of Arizona"
About the Author
Jamie L. Bronstein is Associate Professor of History at New Mexico State University. She is the author of Land Reform and Working-Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800-1862 (Stanford, 1999)
