{"product_id":"making-capitalism-safe-workplace-safety-and-health-regulation-in-america-1880-1940-hardback-9780252034824","title":"Making Capitalism Safe; Workplace Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880-1940 (Hardback) 9780252034824","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMaking Capitalism Safe\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWorkplace Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880-1940\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDonald W. Rogers (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780252034824\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 December 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages, 12 black \u0026amp; white photographs, 5 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.626 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"A first-rate political and legal history. . . . Recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \"A wonderfully interesting book. \u003ci\u003eMaking Capitalism Safe\u003c\/i\u003e is full of new information on the woefully overlooked and understudied state-level industrial safety apparatus of the twentieth-century United States. This study will be required reading for scholars in fields ranging from business and political history to law, political science, and more.\"--John Fabian Witt, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWorkplaces 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. \u003cp\u003eCentering 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 worker-employer 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRogers 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, \u003ci\u003eMaking Capitalism Safe\u003c\/i\u003e will revise historical understandings of state regulation, compensation insurance, and labor law politics--issues that remain pressing in our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments   vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction   1\u003cbr\u003e 1. From Common Law to Factory Laws   11\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Administrative Transformation of Work Safety and Health Law   31\u003cbr\u003e 3. Selling the Safety Spirit   52\u003cbr\u003e 4. The First Safety Codes   68\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Club of the Law   85\u003cbr\u003e 6. Politics and Work Safety Education in the Interwar Economy   103\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Technocrats Take Command   119\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Limits of Law Enforcement   136\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Troubled Campaign against Occupational Disease   152\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Road to OSHA   172\u003cbr\u003e Appendix   183\u003cbr\u003e Notes   187\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography   243\u003cbr\u003e Index   265\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIllustrations follow page 84\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520562262296,"sku":"9780252034824","price":37.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/making-capitalism-safe-workplace-safety-and-health-regulation-in-america-1880-1940-hardback-9780252034824","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}