Workers Compensation Laws, was Re: The Big

[Carrol Cox]

Damn, it's easy to leave out that very important word, "not": "their
purpose was to to provide compensation."
I meant, "NOT to provide..."

Carrol

Ian Murray wrote:
> 
> ----- 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