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The Accidental Republic : Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law
The Accidental Republic Crippled Workingmen Destitute Widows and the Remaking of American Law Author:John Fabian Witt John Fabian Witt argues that experiments in accident law at the turn of the twentieth century arose out of competing views of the loose network of ideas and institutions that historians call the ideology of free labor. These experiments a century ago shaped twentieth- and twenty-first-century American accident law; they laid the foundations of t... more »he American administrative state; and they occasioned a still hotly contested legal transformation from the principles of free labor to the categories of insurance and risk.« less