A Study On American Workmen's Compensation During The Theodore Roosevelt Administration

The government of Theodore Roosevelt was at an important turning point in American history.Under the influence of the progressive movement,a series of changes took place in American economy,politics and culture during this period.Inevitable in the process of industrialization of industrial accident caused important reform about workmen's compensation problem in the United States,through the analysis of Theodore Roosevelt administration employer ?employee and government solve the problem of workmen's compensation measures taken,and to explore their attitude to the workmen's compensation and role,and to explore new characteristics on the development of workmen's compensation problem during this period and the important influence.This paper is divided into four parts.The first part introduces the development of American workmen's compensation before the Theodore Roosevelt administration.At the end of the 19 th century,the rapid development of American industry also caused serious industrial accidents,which brought great harm to the labor group.Under the early common law principle of workers' compensation,the life of injured workers could not be guaranteed.With the rise of the progressive movement,people began to reflect on the inappropriateness of the early workmen's compensation principle,which also provided conditions for the government to intervene in the labor relations.The second part focuses on the issue of workmen's compensation in Theodore Roosevelt's administration and analyzes the specific measures taken by the three parties of workmen's compensation in the United States.The labor group spontaneously establishes the cooperative insurance;A few large enterprises set up resource compensation system;the state government has established laws and commissions to investigate industrial accidents in order to better address the issue of workmen's compensation.Under the leadership of President Theodore Roosevelt,the federal government actively led the reform of workmen's compensation legislation and created a new situation for the development of workmen's compensation.The third part discusses the results achieved by the employer?employee and the government in exploring workmen's compensation,and the specific impact.After theefforts of the state government and the federal government in the process of reforming the workmen's compensation legislation,the labor organization gradually changed its position to support the workmen's compensation legislation;companies further purchased workmen's compensation insurance and actively took responsibility for industrial accidents;at the same time,the efforts of the labor,employer and government after extensive discussions among people from all walks of life,they have gradually joined the process of exploring the issue of labor compensation.So far,labor,employers and government as well as progressive reformers reached an agreement on the reform of workmen's compensation,and gradually determined the embryonic form of labor system,which had a profound impact on the American society.The conclusion part summarizes and reviews the full text,and comments on the exploration of labor compensation in this period.During this period,under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt's government,reformers from all walks of life in the American society jointly promoted the establishment of the rudiment and framework of the national labor compensation governance mechanism,which laid the foundation for the formation of a perfect labor compensation processing mechanism.During the reform process,the federal government's guiding role in the national economic life has become more prominent.