Making Capitalism Safe: Workplace Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880-1940

by Donald W. Rogers

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 state-level work safety and health regulatory agencies, a patchwork of commissions and labor departments that advanced safety law from common-law negligence to the modern system of administrative regulation. Centering on the most important of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252034821
• ISBN13: 9780252034824
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"