Sorry you’re so sleep-deprived. It’s funny, I actually deal far better with lack of sleep now than I ever did before I had kids. Must be the unavoidability factor: pre-children, I could get angry with myself for not getting my full eight hours rest, but now it’s just inevitable that I’ll get, at best, six hours interrupted at least once by a crying/hungry/sick/thirsty Sofia and/or Nico. Somehow I’ve now survived several hundred consecutive nights of this same misery…

(Actually, the kids are sleeping much better these days, often through the night. It’s a miracle.)

Solidarity,
Mike

Have you ever read Charles Reznikoff’s *Testimony*? It’s an amazing documentary poem, collaged from court records for the period 1885-1990, many of which concern labor conditions and work-related accidents. I’d be interested to hear what you make of it.

http://idiocentrism.com/squib.afford.htm

http://idiocentrism.com/squib.purpose.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States

http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/trio/incomelevels.html

1880 Employers’ Liability Act
Workmen’s Compensation Act 1897
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Employers’_liability_and_workmen’s_compensation

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Reviewed Work(s):
* The First British Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1897 by David G. Hanes
Author(s) of Review: Merton C. Bernstein

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-246X(198812)31%3A4%3C1009%3AHAHIBI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5
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* A History of British Industrial Relations, Volume II: 1914-1939 by C. J. Wrigley
* The Wounded Soldiers of Industry: Industrial Compensation Policy 1833-1897 by P. W. J. Bartrip, S. B. Burman
* Race and Labour in Twentieth-Century Britain by Kenneth Lunn
Author(s) of Review: M. W. Kirby
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Legal Justice, Social Justice: An Incursion into the Social History of Work-Related Accident Law in …
RW Kostal - Law and History Review, 1988 - JSTOR

Joseph Chamberlain and Workmen’s Compensation
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Joseph Chamberlain and Workmen’s Compensation
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Women Health Workers: The Case of the First Women Factory Inspectors in Britain - all 2 versions »
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# The Home Office and the Dangerous Trades: Regulating Occupational Disease in Victorian and Edwardian Britain (Clio Medica 68/The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine) (Clio Medica) by PWJ Batrip

The Measurement of Safety: Factory Accident Statistics in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
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Women and Work in Britain since 1840 (Women’s and Gender History) by Gerry Holloway

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A Bale - Legal Studies Forum, 1989 - HeinOnline

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No Longer Dying for a Living: Collective Responses to Injury Risks in South Wales Mining Communities, 1900-47
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Governments, Labour, and the Law in Mid-Victorian Britain: The Trade Union Legislation of the 1870s (Oxford Historical Monographs) (Hardcover)
by Mark Curthoys

Hazards Of The Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science (Hardcover)
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The Employer’s Responsibility to Maintain a Safe and Healthful Work Environment: An Historical Review of Societal Expectations and Industrial Practices
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Tort Law and Victorian Government Growth: The Historiographical Significance of Tort in the Shadow of Chemical Pollution and Factory Safety Regulation
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WorkingUSA
Volume 7 Issue 2 Page 24-42, September 2003
To cite this article: Rory O’Neill (2003) Criminal Neglect. How Dangerous Employers Stay Safe from Prosecution
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“Hundreds of thousands die at work each year, many as a result of clear negligence and cost-cutting on the part of their employer. Anyone convicted of manslaughter can expect to face vigorous prosecution and the probability of a stiff prison sentence when the crime is committed outside the workplace, but behind the factory doors, employers can almost always kill with impunity. Unions worldwide are now calling for corporate accountability to extend to workplace safety crimes and for the incarceration of the most dangerous offenders.”

Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the On-Going Struggle to Protect Workers’ Health (Conversations in Medicine and Society) (Paperback)
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Wifely Duties: Marriage, Labor, and the Common Law in Nineteenth-Century America
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Historic Review of Workers’ Compensation Reform in Florida, A
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Workers’ compensation and the governance of pain
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An Inspector Calls: Perspectives on the History of Occupational Diseases and Accident Compensation … - all 3 versions »
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Brush with Death: A Social History of Lead… by Christian Warren

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Industrial Arbitration, Equity, and Authority in England, 1800-1850
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Accidental Justice: The Dilemmas of Tort Law
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The Sexual Harassment of Women in the Workplace, 1600 to 1993
K Segrave - 1994

Society for the History of Technology. Meeting (46th : 2005 : Minneapolis, Minn.)
The Minneapolis Meeting, 3-6 November 2005
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Workmen’s Compensation or Insurance of Workmen and Their Dependents Against the Loss of Wages Arising Out of Industrial Accidents
James Harrington Boyd
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Points to Be Considered in Workmen’s Compensation Legislation
Launcelot Packer
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Economic Aspects of the Law of Master and Servant, in Its Relation to Industrial Accidents
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Workmens Compensation Act, 1914, The
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THE EMPLOYERS’ LIABILITY/WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION DEBATE OF THE 1890s REVISITED
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Workmen’s Compensation
FC Schwedtman - Canadian Law Times, 1911 - HeinOnline

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J BARRIE - Blackwell Synergy

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Workmen’s Compensation in Illinois
SA Harper - Northwestern University Law Review, 1911 - HeinOnline

Historical Origins of Workmen’s Compensation Laws in the United States: Implementing the European …
PB Keating - law.ku.edu

Labor’S Love Lost? Crystal Eastman’s Contribution to Workers’ Compensation Reform - all 5 versions »
EF Davis, B Babcock - law.stanford.edu

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Ann Shola Orloff, Theda Skocpol
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