Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Workmen's Compensation Laws of the United States and Foreign Countries
The Fourth Special Report of the Commissioner of Labor Issued in 1893 under the title of Compulsory Insurance in Germany, was the first report published in this country devoted to the subject of, work men's insurance.1 At that time compensation for industrial acci dents had been established by law in two countries only, Germany in 1884, and Austria in 1887; the third country - Norway - not fol lowing until 1894. In the other countries discussed in the appendix of this early report the workmen's compensation movement had not passed beyond the stage of Government commissions and legislative discussion.
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