Excerpt from Report to the Legislature of the State of New York: By the Commission Appointed Under Chapter 518 of the Laws of 1909 to Inquire the Question of Employers' Liability and Other Matters; Second Report; Causes and Prevention of Industrial Accidents; April 20, 1911 It will be apparent from the foregoing brief analysis that the accident prevention laws of the State are a patch-work of many parts, and not drawn with reference to any one principle, or with any system. Rather they are a mass of unconnected attempts uncorrelated and loosely organized to do something to ameliorate the conditions of the workers by preventing industrial accidents. As might be expected in any study of factory legis lation, the trouble with the New York Labor Law turns out to be, not so much that the laws are inadequate, but that there is no efficient provision for enforcement. In considering the question of enforcement it will clarify the study to realize that the provisions of law above analyzed fall into three main classes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.