Description
Book SynopsisCaught In the Machinery examines the social, legal, cultural and political history of workplace accidents and injured workers in 19th-century Britain and in the broader Anglo-American context.
Trade Review"
Caught in the Machinery combines legal analysis and social detail to present the consequences of workplace accidents in a fresh context. Jamie Bronstein's excellent scholarship sheds new light on the Victorian origins of the welfare state."
—Richard Cosgrove, University of Arizona
"Now, in a well-documented and organized monograph, Jamie L. Bronstein joins the small number of historians who have engaged with workplace death and injury during the peak period of industrialization in nineteenth-century Britain Bronstein has written a valuable and assiduously documented monograph that ranges far and wide in a field requiring microscopic attention to social and economic detail, regional and sectoral diversity, and extreme legislative and legal complexity." —H-Net
"Bronstein's examination of the paths to compensation and the cultural meanings of workplace accidents provides new insights into nineteenth-century Anglo-American workers' experience of the physical toll imposed on workers' bodies during the rise of industrial capitalism."
—Eric Tucker, York University
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgme nts ix Introduction: Not Your Typical Day at the Office 1 1 The Perils of the Workplace 0 2 The Options for Injured Workers 00 3 The Cultural Meanings of Workplace Accidents 00 4 The Paradox of Free Labor 000 5 Industrial Accidents and State Power 000 Epilogue: The Anglo-American Aftermath 000 Notes 000 Index 000
