Injury Impoverished - Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era

Informationen zum Autor Nate Holdren is Assistant Professor in Law, Politics and Society at Drake University, Iowa. Zusammenfassung Combining archival research, critical theory, and gender- and disability-analysis, Nate Holdren argues that Progressive Era reform to employee injury law created new employment discrimination against disabled people and a new injury culture that treated employees and their injuries instrumentally. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: injuries and abstractions; Part I. The Eclipse of Recognition and The Rise of The Tyranny of The Table: 1. Commodification and recognition within the tyranny of the trial; 2. Injury impoverished; 3. Suffering and the price of life and limb; Interlude: trampler and tramped-on in the Cherry Mine fire; Part II. New Machineries of Injustice: 4. The disabling power of law and market; 5. Insuring injustice; 6. Discrimination technicians and human weeding; Conclusion: resistance and aftermath; Coda: narrative, machinery, law.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Nate Holdren, Nate (Drake University Holdren
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781108488709
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48870-9
• Pages: 300
• Thèmes: Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire par région/pays; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Economie > Général, dictionnaires; USA, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, History - U.S., HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Economic history, Legal History, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas