Download or read book Report of the Industrial Insurance Commission to the Governor of Illinois (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Industrial Insurance Commission to the Governor of Illinois Wms, The limited time at the disposal of the present session of the General Assembly is insufficient to take up, much less carefully and fully consider, the important subject of industrial insurance including pensions for aged workers, protective measures in the interest of workingmen, which in other countries have proved of great value and benefit; and, Wmms, Even in the most favored countries the margin between work and want is an exceedingly narrow one; besides there can be no apprehension more keen or pitiless than the constant clinging dread shared equally by all wealth producers that misfortune in the form of sickness, the liability to become incapacitated through accident or by time's inevitable advance ac companied by waning strength, there will be lacking the means necessary for ordinary maintenance. This most melancholy fact, of which all are conscious, poisons the present and fills the future with fears. The so-called civilized industrialism of our day can be subject to no stronger criticism than the charge fortified by universal experience, that the men and women whose productive energy have contributed so much to our wealth, progress and development, leading simple, unexpensive lives, become in their declin ing years powerless, principally because they are penniless; and. 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.