Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Jamie L. Bronstein

Published by Stanford University Press 2007

Caught in the Machinery

Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Jamie L. Bronstein

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503626867

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Not Your Typical Day at the Office Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 The Perils of the Workplace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
2 The Options for Injured Workers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
3 The Cultural Meanings of Workplace Accidents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
4 The Paradox of Free Labor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
6 Industrial Accidents and State Power Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Epilogue: The Anglo-American Aftermath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219

Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 240

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Published: October 11, 2007
ISBN: 9781503626867