Work Injuries and Adversary Processes in Two New England Textile Mills*

Carl Gersuny

Business History Review, 1977, vol. 51, issue 3, 326-340

Abstract: Whatever the shortcomings of “no-fault” employee compensation laws, such as the one passed in Massachusetts in 1911, Professor Gersuny shows that such laws were a great improvement over what had prevailed. Working with formerly confidential files, he shows that an “adversary relationship” had existed between the employer and his insurance company, on the one hand, and often pitifully maimed employees on the other. With few exceptions, all of the advantages were on the side of the employer, and the rights of employees to more than token compensation were routinely trampled upon.

Date: 1977
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