Job Accidents and the Law in England's Early Railway Age: Origins of Employer Liability and Workmen's Compensation

by Elisabeth A. Cawthon

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773487352
• ISBN13: 9780773487352
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Length: 230 Pages