Burden of Industrial Accidents
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9763834 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Mitchell (0000-0002-0710-5580, American Federation of Labor), John R Mitchell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1911 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 76-82 |
| Publication date | 1911-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271621103800111 |
| OpenAlex | W54030276 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
During recent years the problem of industrial accidents and their prevention, and the question of compensation to workmen for losses caused by them have provoked wide public discussion, as a result of which the Federal Government and several state legislatures have appointed commissions to investigate the causes of such accidents and to devise some legal system of automatically indemnifying workmen for losses caused by them. These subjects concern, in a very large way, all the people of the state and nation, although they affect more immediately the workingmen, because it is upon them that the burden falls with crushing weight; it is they and their dependents who suffer the direct and terrible consequences of such accidents. The greatest disaster that can befall the family of a wage-earner is to have the father and bread-winner carried lifeless into his home, and the shock of this calamity comes with added force when the death is due to an industrial accident-yet in our country this tragedy is enacted more than Ioo times each day, more than 35,000 times each year! While the bread of the laborer is earned in the sweat of his brow, it is eaten in the peril of his life. Whether he work upon the sea, upon the earth, or in the mines underneath the earth, the laborer constantly faces imminent death; and his danger increases with the progress of the age. With each new invention the number of killed and injured rises. Each new speeding up of the mechanisms of industrial life, each increase in the number and size of our mighty engines, brings with it fresh human sacrifices. Each year the locomotive augments the number of its victims, in each year is lengthened the roll of the men who enter the dark and dampness of the mine, never to return to their homes and loved ones. Many are killed without violence; thousands of wage-earners lose their lives in factories, mills and mines without the inquest of a coroner. The slow death that comes from working in a vitiated atmosphere, from laboring incessantly in constrained and unnatural (76)
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| Citations per year | 0.1 |
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| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |