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Home / Workers’ Compensation / History / History bookshelf

History bookshelf

Selected material on changes over the years to Ontario’s workers’ compensation. For more resources, responses and submissions search our online catalogue.

Articles & reports

  • Biggin, Phil, Orlando Buonastella, Marion Endicott & John McKinnon. 1995. “Justice for injured workers: the struggle continues.” Journal of Law and Social Policy 11: 41-77
  • Black, Robson. 1915. “Providing for the damaged workman: an explanation of the Workmen’s Compensation Act of Ontario.” Maclean’s Magazine 28(6): 14-16, 105-106 (based on an interview with Sir William Meredith)
  • Critical times (1995-2001) – responses to Bill 99
  • Ehring, George. 1988. “An injury to all: workers’ compensation and the right to rehabilitation.” Our Times 7(1): 22-23, 25
  • Ellsworth, Ron et al. 1994. “Poverty law: the year in review.” Journal of Law and Social Policy 10: 1-70  (p. 24-35 on workers’ compensation reforms)
  • Injured Workers’ History Project. 2006-2011. IWHP bulletins
  • Ison, Terence G. 1986. “The significance of experience rating.” Osgoode Hall Law Journal 24(4): 723-742
  • _. 1996. “A historical perspective on contemporary challenges in workers’ compensation.” Osgoode Hall Law Journal 34(4): 807-833.
  • King, Andrew & Nick McCombie. 1981. “Workers’ comp: legal right or social welfare?”  This Magazine 15(1): 34-38
  • King, Andrew. 2014. Making sense of law reform : a case study of workers’ compensation law reform in Ontario 1980 to 2012. University of Ottawa., Faculty of Law
  • McCombie, Nick. 1984. “Justice for injured workers: a community responds to Government ‘reform’.” Canadian Community Law Journal 7: 136-173
  • McCombie, Nick. 1984. “Ontario: Injured workers fight back.” Canadian Dimension 18(4): 27-28
  • Risk, R.C.B. 1983. “This Nuisance of litigation: the origins of workers’ compensation in Ontario.” In Essays in the History of Canadian Law, vol. II, edited by David H. Flaherty, 418-491. Toronto: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and the University of Toronto Press.
  • Storey, Robert. 2008. “Their only power was moral: the injured workers’ movement in Toronto, 1970-1985.” Histoire sociale/Social History 41(81): 99-131
  • ___. 2009. “From invisibility to equality? Women workers & workers’ compensation in Ontario.” Labour/Le Travail 64: 75-106
  • ___. 2009. “‘They have all been faithful workers’: injured workers, truth, and workers’ compensation in Ontario, 1970-2008.” Journal of Canadian Studies 43(1): 154-185
  • Wilken, David K.. 1998. “Manufacturing crisis in workers’ compensation.” Journal of Law and Social Policy 13: 124-165

Commissions, task forces, Ministry reports

1913 Meredith report
Meredith report

1900 Mavor | 1913 Meredith – summary | 1932 Middleton | 1950 Roach (and summary) | 1967 McGillivray (and summary)| 1973 Aird (and summary)| 1978 Wyatt (commentary) | 1980 Weiler (Reshaping workers’ compensation) | 1983 Weiler (Protecting the worker from disability) | 1986 Weiler (Permanent partial disability) | 1987 Minna-Majesky – summary | 1996 Jackson | 2009 Auditor General (s3.14- WSIB)| 2020 WSIB Operational Review

WCB / WSIB policy reports

2000 Chronic Pain Panels | 2002-3 Coverage Review |2005 Occupational Disease Advisory Panel | 2011 KPMG VFMA Adjudication & Claims Administration (see pp:278-353) | 2012 Arthurs (funding) |2013 Thomas (benefits) | 2013 Prism (claim suppression) | 2014 Stanley and 2017-8 (rate framework) | 2017 Chronic mental stress | 2022 Occupational Disease Policy Framework | Temporary Employment Agency rates

Timelines

  • Injured workers in Ontario: a timeline (1886- )
  • Workers’ compensation history project : Meredith anniversary timeline
  • Ontario Workplace Tribunals Library. A documentary history of workers’ compensation in Ontario (1886-2009)
  • Association of Workers’ Compensation Boards in Canada. Timeline
  • Injured workers benefits up and down 1915-2021 (doc.)
  • Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers Support Group. Some of the accomplishments of the injured worker movement in Ontario 1983-2019 (doc.)

… and Videos

  • Injured Workers’ History Project. Their only power was moral: a history of injured workers in Ontario (DVD) (Youtube – video in 3 parts)
  • Italian Fallen Workers Memorial (videos)
  • WCB Manitoba. Workers’ compensation: a historic compromise (video)

Updated February 14, 2023

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