Industrial hygiene : y ... C.-E.A. Winslow.

  • Winslow, C.-E. A. (Charles-Edward Amory), 1877-1957.
Date:
1911
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    be repaired—the money loss—should be charged against the industry itself and paid by the purchasers of the product. Our American system of the past was as far as possible from accom- plishing this end. The maimed em- ployee or the widow of the fatally injured received no compensation at all unless legal proceedings were in- stituted in each special case, and then not unless it could be proved that the employer had been guilty of special negligence, the employee being held to assume all the ordinary risks of the employment and those due to the negli- gence of any other fellow-servants. The practical result has been that on the one hand large expenditures have been made by employers for insurance and for the legal expense of contesting lawsuits, and that on the other hand a few employees with financial re- sources and acute legal assistance have mulcted their employers, while the great mass of the needy sufferers have received nothing or almost nothing. Thus in the study of work accidents at Pittsburg it appeared that of 235