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Author: Robert Metcalfe Minton-Senhouse
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 174
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeing reports of cases decided under the Workmen's compensation act, principally taken from the Times law reports.
Author: Price V. Fishback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780226251639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorkers' compensation was arguably the first widespread social insurance program in the United States--before social security, Medicare, or unemployment insurance--and the most successful form of labor legislation to emerge from the early progressive movement. In A Prelude to the Welfare State, Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor challenge widespread historical perceptions by arguing that workers' compensation, rather than being an early progressive victory, succeeded because all relevant parties--labor and management, insurance companies, lawyers, and legislators--benefited from the ruling.
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 496
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Crystal Eastman
Publisher: New York, Charities Publication Committee
Published: 1910
Total Pages: 466
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Claudia Goldin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0226301346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow has the United States government grown? What political and economic factors have given rise to its regulation of the economy? These eight case studies explore the late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century origins of government intervention in the United States economy, focusing on the political influence of special interest groups in the development of economic regulation. The Regulated Economy examines how constituent groups emerged and demanded government action to solve perceived economic problems, such as exorbitant railroad and utility rates, bank failure, falling agricultural prices, the immigration of low-skilled workers, workplace injury, and the financing of government. The contributors look at how preexisting policies, institutions, and market structures shaped regulatory activity; the origins of regulatory movements at the state and local levels; the effects of consensus-building on the timing and content of legislation; and how well government policies reflect constituency interests. A wide-ranging historical view of the way interest group demands and political bargaining have influenced the growth of economic regulation in the United States, this book is important reading for economists, political scientists, and public policy experts.
Author: William Otis Badger
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 808
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Morley Gunderson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780802082398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTopics covered include low back pain in workers' compensation, payroll taxes, unfunded liabilities, occupational health and safety, private participation, the cost, appeals litigation.
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2000-09-01
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0309070260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite many advances, 20 American workers die each day as a result of occupational injuries. And occupational safety and health (OSH) is becoming even more complex as workers move away from the long-term, fixed-site, employer relationship. This book looks at worker safety in the changing workplace and the challenge of ensuring a supply of top-notch OSH professionals. Recommendations are addressed to federal and state agencies, OSH organizations, educational institutions, employers, unions, and other stakeholders. The committee reviews trends in workforce demographics, the nature of work in the information age, globalization of work, and the revolution in health care deliveryâ€"exploring the implications for OSH education and training in the decade ahead. The core professions of OSH (occupational safety, industrial hygiene, and occupational medicine and nursing) and key related roles (employee assistance professional, ergonomist, and occupational health psychologist) are profiled-how many people are in the field, where they work, and what they do. The book reviews in detail the education, training, and education grants available to OSH professionals from public and private sources.
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 1784
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonathan D. Karmel
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2017-12-15
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1501714376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Dying to Work, Jonathan Karmel raises our awareness of unsafe working conditions with accounts of workers who were needlessly injured or killed on the job. Based on heart-wrenching interviews Karmel conducted with injured workers and surviving family members across the country, the stories in this book are introduced in a way that helps place them in a historical and political context and represent a wide survey of the American workplace, including, among others, warehouse workers, grocery store clerks, hotel housekeepers, and river dredgers. Karmel’s examples are portraits of the lives and dreams cut short and reports of the workplace incidents that tragically changed the lives of everyone around them. Dying to Work includes incidents from industries and jobs that we do not commonly associate with injuries and fatalities and highlights the risks faced by workers who are hidden in plain view all around us. While exposing the failure of safety laws that leave millions of workers without compensation and employers without any meaningful incentive to protect their workers, Karmel offers the reader some hope in the form of policy suggestions that may make American workers safer and employers more accountable. This is a book for anyone interested in issues of worker health and safety, and it will also serve as the cornerstone for courses in public policy, community health, labor studies, business ethics, regulation and safety, and occupational and environmental health policy.
