Author: Glenn Merrill Shor

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Published: 1991

Total Pages: 764

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This dissertation describes the evolution of workers' compensation policy in California from the events leading to the adoption of the policy in 1911 to the present. Workers' compensation was a Progressive Era response to problems associated with high rates of industrial injury, inadequate levels of compensation, and rising and uncertain costs for employers. The Legislature enacted an integrated program of compensation, insurance and safety in which injured workers were promised timely and adequate compensation, employers would be protected against lawsuits if they carried insurance against industrial accidents, and the State would administer a full program of occupational health and safety. Today, nearly 80 years later, the system faces many of the problems prompting its creation.