Unfortunatly the book is presently out of print. The stripping away of the injured worker's right to sue his employer by early worker's compensation laws was an egregious deprivation of a basic civil right. While injured workers are merely a waste product to the industries that have used them up, they are still useful to other sectors of the economy. The more workers are injured the more insurance is needed and the more insurers can charge for the insurance.
Litigation is a major aspect of workers' compensation.
Lawyers, doctors, insurance companies-everyone benefits except injured workers. The destruction of the lives of millions of our fellow citizens, of their ability to work, to take care of themselves and their families, costs us all dearly. For it is our tax dollars that support most of the industrially disabled, and not the industries that caused the disabilities. There is also a moral cost to our nation that cannot be overlooked. There is a great reservoir of anger and bitterness growing among the millions who have been hurt on the job and thrown on society's ash heap.