Most injured industrial workers received no compensation under nineteenth-century tort law

Evidence

What was crystal clear was that the system did not work, in the sense of giving something substantial to battered, maimed, and crippled workers. In New York state, a report found about17,000 industrial injuries and deaths in one year (1909), but only a few hundred actual lawsuits for compensation. About 40 percent of fatal accidents, according to another study, resulted in absolutely nothing by way of compensation, and those who recovered often got a pittance. — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3832

Categorization

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Broader Connections

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