The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law by John Fabian Witt

The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law

John Fabian Witt

311 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In the five decades after the Civil War, the United States witnessed a profusion of legal institutions designed to cope with the nation's exceptionally acute industrial accident crisis. Jurists elaborated the common law of torts. Workingmen's orga...

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