Workmen
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The employed labourers whose right to combine and strike is the central subject of the combination law discussed.
The administrative power of the Executive could do a good deal to mitigate the severity of the combination law, and it would rather seem that, at any rate during the second stage of the combination law (1864-1884), workmen, no less than employers, did in fact exercise the power of association with considerable freedom.
291, 292, prohibited all societies or associations of more than twenty persons (except mercantile partnerships) which were not authorised by the Government, and articles 414-416 punished with severe penalties combinations (coalitions) either of masters or of workmen;
—The law of 1884 (loi du 21 mars 1884) includes much of what Englishmen understand by the combination law, but deals with a wider subject than the right of combination as exercised by employers or by workmen.
The Genius of the Common Law
Laboring employees whose organizing efforts and liability claims against employers are discussed across several paragraphs.
Hence the long and lamentable history of judicial and parliamentary warfare against the persistent efforts of workmen, from the time when the medieval structure of society broke up, to devise organized methods of self-defense.
When workmen and subaltern employees plucked up courage to bring actions against their masters, orthodox political economy was already in the ascendant, and those judges who had minds above mere empirical routine had one leading idea, that all would be well in the best of possible competitive worlds if one could only reduce all human relations to contract.
The mere lawyer must be excused from determining in what proportions the insurance would ultimately rest on the employer, or fall on the workman in the shape of diminished wages, or on the consumer of the product (anything from an Atlantic liner to an opera) in the shape of enhanced prices.
The Law of Torts
The class of employed persons (including railway servants) protected by the Employers' Liability Act, 1880.
the workman, or in case the injury results in death, the legal personal representatives of the workman, and any persons entitled in case of death, shall have the same right of compensation and remedies against the employer as if the workman had not been a workman of nor in the service of the employer, nor engaged in his work.
Where after the commencement of this Act personal injury is caused to a workman
A workman shall not be entitled under this Act to any right of compensation or remedy against the employer in any of the following cases;