New York Worker's Compensation Act
Law
By: New York State Legislature
Date: 1910
Source: New York State Legislature. New York Worker's Compensation Act (1910). Reprinted in Hall, Kermit, William M. Wiecek, and Paul Finkelman. American Legal History: Cases and Materials, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, 359–361.
About the Organization: New York formed its state legislature in 1777 but has frequently reshaped it, with changes occurring as recently as 1982. The legislature currently has 211 members, 150 in the Assembly and 61 in the Senate.
Introduction
Until the twentieth century, the American workplace was largely unregulated. Growth of the factory system, combined with an American belief in freedom, produced an atmosphere ripe for corporate abuse of workers in nineteenth-century factories. Legal theorists argued that "liberty of contract" gave both workers and...
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