Caught in the machinery
Subtitle: workplace accidents and injured workers in nineteenth-century Britain
By: Jamie L. Bronstein.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804700085
Subjects: Industrial accidents -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Workers' compensation -- Great Britain -- History; Workers' compensation -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:  Not your typical day at the office; title: The perils of the workplace; title: The options for injured workers; title: The cultural meanings of workplace accidents; title: The paradox of free labor; title: Industrial accidents and state power; title: Epilogue: the Anglo-American aftermath.