Accident Society

Author : Jason Puskar
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804778450
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accident Society written by Jason Puskar and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that language and literature actively produced chance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by categorizing injuries and losses as innocent of design. Automobile collisions and occupational injuries became "car accidents" and "industrial accidents." During the post-Civil War period of racial, ethnic, and class-based hostility, chance was an abstract enemy against which society might unite. By producing chance, novels by William Dean Howells, Stephen Crane, Anna Katharine Green, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, and James Cain documented and helped establish new modes of collective interdependence. Chance here is connected not with the competitive individualism of the Gilded Age, but with important progressive and social democratic reforms, including developments in insurance, which had long employed accident narratives to shape its own "mutual society." Accident Society reveals the extent to which American collectivity has depended—and continues to depend—on the literary production of chance.

Author : Christopher M. Davis
Publisher : Davis Law Group, P.S.
ISBN 13 : 1595711953
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ten Biggest Mistakes that Can Wreck Your Washington Accident Case written by Christopher M. Davis and published by Davis Law Group, P.S.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Author : National Safety Council
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780879122829
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book National Safety Council Injury Facts written by National Safety Council and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jessie Singer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982129689
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book There Are No Accidents written by Jessie Singer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist recounts the surprising history of accidents and reveals how they’ve come to define all that’s wrong with America. We hear it all the time: “Sorry, it was just an accident.” And we’ve been deeply conditioned to just accept that explanation and move on. But as Jessie Singer argues convincingly: There are no such things as accidents. The vast majority of mishaps are not random but predictable and preventable. Singer uncovers just how the term “accident” itself protects those in power and leaves the most vulnerable in harm’s way, preventing investigations, pushing off debts, blaming the victims, diluting anger, and even sparking empathy for the perpetrators. As the rate of accidental death skyrockets in America, the poor and people of color end up bearing the brunt of the violence and blame, while the powerful use the excuse of the “accident” to avoid consequences for their actions. Born of the death of her best friend, and the killer who insisted it was an accident, this book is a moving investigation of the sort of tragedies that are all too common, and all too commonly ignored. In this revelatory book, Singer tracks accidental death in America from turn of the century factories and coal mines to today’s urban highways, rural hospitals, and Superfund sites. Drawing connections between traffic accidents, accidental opioid overdoses, and accidental oil spills, Singer proves that what we call accidents are hardly random. Rather, who lives and dies by an accident in America is defined by money and power. She also presents a variety of actions we can take as individuals and as a society to stem the tide of “accidents”—saving lives and holding the guilty to account.

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1430 pages
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Download or read book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings of the Second Annual Session, National Association of Industrial Accident Boards & Commissions written by International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New York (State). Insurance Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Superintendent of Insurance of the State of New York written by New York (State). Insurance Department and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New York (State). Insurance Department
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Superintendent of Insurance to the New York Legislature written by New York (State). Insurance Department and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New York (State). Insurance Department
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Superintendent of the Insurance Department, State of New York written by New York (State). Insurance Department and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: