Worker and the state
- 3rd ed.
- London George Routledge 1948
- 302p.
The book deals, broadly speaking, with the interference by the State in the relationship of employer and employed for the purpose of securing the health, safety, and general well-being of the latter class. Besides treating of health and safety on a wide basis it comprises the law as to the fixing and payment of wages, as to hours of labour, and as to compensation for accidents. The subjects of State Insurances and Trade Union law are purposely omitted. The treatment is historical and critical, as well as expository, and Reports of Departmental Committees on the working of the Truck Acts and the Workmen's Compensation Act, Annual Reports of the Chief Inspector of Factories, and various local Reports have been utilized. The Report of the Cave Com- mittee on the Trade Boards Acts only appeared as the book was passing through the press, but its Summary of recommendations will be found in the Appendix.