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Joseph Chamberlain and Workmen's Compensation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

W. C. Mallalieu
W. C. Mallalieu
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University of Louisville
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The British Workmen's Compensation Acts of 1897 and 1899 were “astonishing” to contemporaries and have not been adequately explained by historians. Although passed under a Conservative-Liberal Unionist Cabinet, these acts put heavy burdens upon industry and agriculture, interests that were very influential in both of these parties. “It was no wonder that Tories asked themselves what they were coming to, nor that the usual answer to the question was that they were being swallowed by Mr. Chamberlain.”

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , May 1950 , pp. 45 - 57
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1950

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