Job Accidents and the Law in England's Early Railway Age: Origins of Employer Liability and Workmen's Compensation (Studies in British History)

Job Accidents and the Law in England's Early Railway Age: Origins of Employer Liability and Workmen's Compensation (Studies in British History)


The research contained in this text chronicles the actions of coroners' courts in the 1830s and 1840s, in order to illustrate the competition and, literally, the bargaining which could occur in a legal arena when a set of forces changed English workplaces. The study argues that the strictness of judge-made and legislated law toward occupational

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