[Rezension zu Charles Richmond Henderson: Industrial Insurance in the United States, Second Edition]

Emil Lederer: Review of Charles Richmond Henderson’s Industrial Insurance in the United States, Second Edition (1912)

Lederer’s brief review locates Henderson’s book in the comparative literature on workers’ insurance. It identifies the English edition as substantially corresponding to the account of insurance in the United States previously published as volume XVII of Dr. Zacher’s Die Arbeiterversicherung im Ausland. Its emphasis is on the edition’s updated evidence and legislative orientation, without developing an extended critical assessment.

Die statistischen Daten sind, wo es möglich war, bis auf die neueste Zeit ergänzt, und die wesentlichsten Bestimmungen der europäischen Sozialversicherungsgesetze sollen den amerikanischen Lesern die Tendenzen für die Entwicklung der sozialen Versicherungsgesetzgebung andeuten.

English translation: The statistical data have, wherever it was possible, been supplemented up to the most recent time, and the most essential provisions of the European social insurance laws are intended to indicate to American readers the tendencies for the development of social insurance legislation.

The sentence links empirical revision to comparative guidance: European legislation supplies American readers with indications of possible directions for social insurance law. Lederer thus presents the book as both an account of existing arrangements and a resource for understanding legislative development.

Am Schluß sind mehrere Versicherungsinstitutionen großindustrieller Betriebe und die neueste Versicherungsgesetzgebung der Unionsstaaten aufgeführt.

English translation: At the close, several insurance institutions of large industrial enterprises and the most recent insurance legislation of the states of the Union are set out.

This closing description identifies the book’s concluding coverage of insurance institutions within large industrial enterprises and recent legislation in individual American states. The review’s relevance lies in this concise mapping of updated statistics, European comparison, and American institutional developments.