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The Accidental Republic thomas j. wilson prize TheBoardofSyndicsofHarvardUniversityPresshas awardedthisbookthethirty-thirdannualThomasJ. WilsonPrize,honoringthelatedirectorofthePress. ThePrizeisawardedtothebookchosenbytheSyndics asthebestfirstbookacceptedbythePressduringthe calendaryear. The Accidental Republic Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law John Fabian Witt Harvard University Press Cambridge,Massachusetts,andLondon,England 2004 Copyright©2004bythePresidentandFellowsofHarvardCollege Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Witt,JohnFabian. Theaccidentalrepublic:crippledworkingmen,destitutewidows,andthe remakingofAmericanlaw/JohnFabianWitt. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-674-01267-4(alk.paper) 1.Workers’compensation—Lawandlegislation—UnitedStates—History. 2.Accidentlaw—UnitedStates—History. I.Title. KF3615.W582004 344.7302′1—dc22 2003056684 Formyparents, LorettaCooperWitt and ThomasPowellWitt Contents Introduction 1 1 CrippledWorkingmen,DestituteWidows, andtheCrisisofFreeLabor 22 2 TheDilemmasofClassicalTortLaw 43 3 TheCooperativeInsuranceMovement 71 4 FromMarketstoManagers 103 5 Widows,Actuaries,andthe LogicsofSocialInsurance 126 6 ThePassionofWilliamWerner 152 7 TheAccidentalRepublic 187 Conclusion 208 Notes 215 Acknowledgments 297 Index 299 The Accidental Republic

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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 organizations founded a widespread system of cooperative
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The Accidental Republic thomas j. wilson prize TheBoardofSyndicsofHarvardUniversityPresshas awardedthisbookthethirty-thirdannualThomasJ. WilsonPrize,honoringthelatedirectorofthePress. ThePrizeisawardedtothebookchosenbytheSyndics asthebestfirstbookacceptedbythePressduringthe calendaryear. The Accidental Republic Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law John Fabian Witt Harvard University Press Cambridge,Massachusetts,andLondon,England 2004 Copyright©2004bythePresidentandFellowsofHarvardCollege Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Witt,JohnFabian. Theaccidentalrepublic:crippledworkingmen,destitutewidows,andthe remakingofAmericanlaw/JohnFabianWitt. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-674-01267-4(alk.paper) 1.Workers’compensation—Lawandlegislation—UnitedStates—History. 2.Accidentlaw—UnitedStates—History. I.Title. KF3615.W582004 344.7302′1—dc22 2003056684 Formyparents, LorettaCooperWitt and ThomasPowellWitt Contents Introduction 1 1 CrippledWorkingmen,DestituteWidows, andtheCrisisofFreeLabor 22 2 TheDilemmasofClassicalTortLaw 43 3 TheCooperativeInsuranceMovement 71 4 FromMarketstoManagers 103 5 Widows,Actuaries,andthe LogicsofSocialInsurance 126 6 ThePassionofWilliamWerner 152 7 TheAccidentalRepublic 187 Conclusion 208 Notes 215 Acknowledgments 297 Index 299 The Accidental Republic

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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 organizations founded a widespread system of cooperative
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