{"product_id":"caught-in-the-machinery-9780804700085","title":"Caught in the Machinery","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaught 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCaught in the Machinery\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Richard Cosgrove, University of Arizona\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Eric Tucker, York University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  \tAcknowledgme  nts\tix  \tIntroduction:   Not Your Typical Day at the Office\t1  1\tThe Perils of the   Workplace\t0  2\tThe Options for   Injured Workers\t00  3\tThe Cultural   Meanings of Workplace Accidents\t00  4\tThe Paradox of   Free Labor\t000  5\tIndustrial   Accidents and State Power\t000  \tEpilogue: The   Anglo-American Aftermath\t000  \tNotes\t000  \tIndex\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405377511767,"sku":"9780804700085","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804700085.jpg?v=1730490464","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/caught-in-the-machinery-9780804700085","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}