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books:

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

2 reviews
John Fabian Witt

Harvard University Press, 2006

Engrossing and illuminating book
Witt's book is the best of its kind -- it illuminates the history and legal developments of the turn-of-the-century modern factories and their beleagured workers with stories of the historical players, the thinkers, and the judges and legislators. Witt is accessible to all and I have not stopped thinking about the book and its significance to today's tort laws since.

Labor, Free and Slave: Workingmen and the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States
Bernard Mandel

University of Illinois Press, 2007

A classic piece of Old Left scholarship made available to a new generation of students and activists Bernard Mandel's classic study provides a concise overview of the relationship between organized abolitionism and the fledgling labor movement in the period before the Civil War. Mandel argues that slavery reinforced the powerlessness of white workers North and South, and the racial divisions that it upheld rendered effective labor solidarity ...

Workingmen And The Church
Robert Francis Coyle

Porter Press, 2008

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.