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Informationen zum Autor Donald W. Rogers is a history instructor at Central Connecticut State University and Housatonic Community College and editor of Voting and the Spirit of American Democracy: Essays on the History of Voting and Voting Rights in America. Klappentext 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 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.Rogers 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, Making Capitalism Safe will revise historical understandings of state regulation, compensation insurance, and labor law politics--issues that remain pressing in our time. Zusammenfassung A broad! historical appraisal of the evolution of work safety and health regulation in the U.S. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. From Common Law to Factory Laws 11 2. The Administrative Transformation of Work Safety and Health Law 31 3. Selling the Safety Spirit 52 4. The First Safety Codes 68 5. The Club of the Law 85 6. Politics and Work Safety Education in the Interwar Economy 103 7. The Technocrats Take Command 119 8. The Limits of Law Enforcement 136 9. The Troubled Campaign against Occupational Disease 152 Epilogue: The Road to OSHA 172 Appendix 183 Notes 187 Bibliography 243 Index 265Illustrations follow page 84...
