Program

Research Programs: Humanities, Science, and Technology

Period of Performance

7/1/1976 - 10/31/1977

Funding Totals

$45,000.00 (approved)
$45,000.00 (awarded)


Case History of New Zealand Accident Compensation Act as a Response to Technological Development

FAIN: RH-10040-76

Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-2859)
Jane C. Kronick (Project Director: July 1976 to present)

To provide a precise historical account of a case of crystallization of values and beliefs involved in relation to technological change in society; to examine the diffusion into related areas such as welfare, health, law and politics, and, to examine the effect of the new values on the industrial and technological condition which gave rise to them.