The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870UNC Press Books, 1991 - 286 pagine Examining the emergence of the modern conception of free labor--labor that could not be legally compelled, even though voluntarily agreed upon--Steinfeld explains how English law dominated the early American colonies, making violation of labor agreements |
Sommario
Introduction | 3 |
The MasterServant Relationship in Early Modern England and the American Colonies | 15 |
Labor Imagined | 55 |
The Freeborn Englishman and the Persistence of Traditional Service | 94 |
The Ambiguous Impact of the American Revolution | 122 |
Working Out the Idea and Practice of Free Labor | 147 |
The Federal AntiPeonage Act of 1867 | 173 |
Conclusion SelfOwnership and SelfGovernment in the Nineteenth Century | 185 |
Appendix Habeas Corpus File of Runaway Laborers Cbesapeake and Ohio Canal Company 1829 | 189 |
Notes | 197 |
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