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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill ; London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2004]
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| Colección: | Studies in legal history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- England, 1562-1875 : the law and its uses / Douglas Hay
- Early British America, 1585-1830 : freedom bound / Christopher Tomlins
- Law and labor in eighteenth-century Newfoundland / Jerry Bannister
- Canada, 1670-1935 : symbolic and instrumental enforcement in loyalist North America / Paul Craven
- Australia, 1788-1902 : a workingman's paradise? / Michael Quinlan
- The Colonial Office, 1820-1955 : constantly the subject of small struggles / M.K. Banton
- The British Caribbean, 1823-1838 : the transition from slave to free legal status / Mary Turner
- Urban British Guiana, 1838-1924 : wharf rats, centipedes, and pork knockers / Juanita de Barros
- South Africa, 1841-1924 : race, contract, and coercion / Martin Chanock
- Hong Kong, 1841-1870 : all the servants in prison and nobody to take care of the house / Christopher Munn
- Britain : the defeat of the 1844 master and servants bill / Christopher Frank
- India, 1858-1930 : the illusion of free labor / Michael Anderson
- Assam and the West Indies, 1860-1920 : immobilizing plantation labor / Prabhu P. Mohapatra
- West Afrira, 1874-1948 : employment legislation in a nonsettler peasant economy / Richard Rathbone
- Kenya, 1895-1939 : registration and rough justice / David M. Anderson.