Making Capitalism Safe: Workplace Safety And Health Regulation In America, 18801940 (Working Class In American History),Used

Making Capitalism Safe: Workplace Safety And Health Regulation In America, 18801940 (Working Class In American History),Used

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Workplaces in the United States are safer today than they were 120 years ago. In this book, Donald W. Rogers attributes this improvement partly to the development in the Progressive Era of surprisingly strong statelevel work safety and health regulatory agencies, a patchwork of commissions and labor departments that advanced safety law from commonlaw negligence to the modern system of administrative regulation.Centering on the most important of these state agencies, the Wisconsin Industrial Commission, Rogers examines how Wisconsin's program operated in practice, what its results were, and how it compared to protective labor law arrangements in Ohio, California, New York, Illinois, and Alabama. He illuminates the achievements of these agencies, including their integration of workers compensation and commission regulation (two bedrocks of modern occupational safety law), as well as their establishment of workeremployer advisory committees, administrative safety codes, a 'safety first' ethic, and 'prevailing good practices' in modernizing firms. He also reveals the mixed success that these bodies met in their code enforcement efforts and industrial health initiatives.Rogers shows how safety commissions reconciled technological progress with industrial efficiency, justice, and stability. Connecting this history to the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 1970, Making Capitalism Safe will revise historical understandings of state regulation, compensation insurance, and labor law politicsissues that remain pressing in our time.

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