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Masters, servants, and magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 /

Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and children for breach of private contracts wit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: William Nelson Cromwell Foundation (sponsoring body.)
Otros Autores: Hay, Douglas (Editor ), Craven, Paul, 1950- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
Colección:Studies in legal history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and children for breach of private contracts with their employers. The English model was adopted, modified, and reinvented in more than a thousand colonial statutes and ordinances regulating the recruitment, retention, and discipline of workers in shops, mines, and factories; on farms, in forests, and on plantations; and at sea. This collection p.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 592 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-559) and indexes.
ISBN:0807875864
9780807875865