----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
> As I understand it, the original workers' compesation laws were sort
of
> archetypal -- their purpose was to to provide compensation for injured
> workers but to deny workers the right to sue for indemnity for
injuries
> on the job?
>
> Carrol
========= The following tells the story:
Author Moss, David A., 1964- Title Socializing security : progressive-era economists and the origins of American social policy / David A. Moss Pub info Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996