During the late nineteenth century, many countries across Europe adopted national legislation that required employers to compensate workers injured or killed in accidents at work. These laws suggested that the risk of accidents was inherent to work and not due to individual negligence. By focusing on Britain, Germany, and Italy during this time, Julia Moses demonstrates how these laws reflected a major transformation in thinking about the nature of individual responsibility and social risk.
The First Modern Risk illuminates the implications of this conceptual revolution for the role of the state in managing problems of everyday life, transforming understandings about both the obligations and rights of individuals. Drawing on a wide array of disciplines including law, history, and politics, Moses offers a fascinating transnational view of a pivotal moment in the evolution of the welfare state.
| ISBN: | 9781108426503 |
| Publication date: | 21st June 2018 |
| Author: | Julia Moses |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 332 pages |
| Series: | Studies in Legal History |
| Genres: |
European history Comparative law Employment and labour law: general Occupational health and safety law, working time law |
During the late nineteenth century, many countries across Europe adopted national legislation that required employers to compensate workers injured or killed in accidents at work. These laws suggested that the risk of accidents was inherent to work and not due to individual negligence.
The First Modern Risk features in the following genres: European history, Comparative law, Employment and labour law: general, Occupational health and safety law, working time law
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The First Modern Risk was written by Julia Moses and published by Cambridge University Press
The First Modern Risk has 332 pages
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