Compensation Movement Research Articles

Governmental responsibility for victims of atomic testing: a chronicle of the politics of compensation.

Since 1945 the U.S. government has conducted extensive atomic testing for purposes of protecting the national security and developing industrial uses of nuclear power. Newly available information indicates that many citizens were unwittingly harmed by exposure to radioactive fallout from this testing. The victims are pressuring the government to accept liability for its actions and offer compensation for the damages. To date, however, their efforts have been largely unsuccessful. This article analyzes the politics of the atomic compensation movement, from its beginnings through the 97th Congress. It concludes that, barring the enactment of specific legislation, atomic victims stand little chance of gaining financial compensation or moral satisfaction.

Conflict and compromise: The workmen's compensation movement in New York, 1890s‐1913

Conflict and compromise: The workmen's compensation movement in New York, 1890s‐1913

Trends and Problems in Workmen's Compensation

Previous articleNext article No AccessTrends and Problems in Workmen's CompensationMonroe BerkowitzMonroe Berkowitz Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Social Service Review Volume 32, Number 2Jun., 1958 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/640458 Views: 1Total views on this site Copyright 1958 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Dismissal Compensation Movement

The Dismissal Compensation Movement

Relation of Workmen's Compensation to Accident Prevention

This impotence of statistics is freely admitted by the labor statisticians themselves. Aside from a few suggestive promises of what they might perhaps do in the future if given adequate appropriations for their work, they are as helpless as the man on the street. The result of the continuous financial pressure exerted by workmen's compensation laws cannot be measured in figures. It is impossible to separate the powerful stimulus of accident compensation from other influences working toward industrial safety. But in dealing with some questions daily observation and common sense are worth more than a five-pound book of statistical tables, and when tabulated figures are lacking, expert opinion is especially welcome and valuable. A brief survey of the development of the compensation movement and the closely following national movement for accident prevention is instructive. The first state workmen's compensation laws to go into effect and stay in effect were enacted in,1911. The very next year a group of employers and technical advisors held a meeting out of which later grew the great national organization of individuals and companies interested in the promotion of safety in industrial establishments. A familiar statement by employer speakers at their safety conferences runs like this: Our state passed a workmen's compensation bill in 19-, and we then realized that as a matter