The Invention of Free Labor : The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870 /

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Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steinfeld, Robert J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1991]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Arbeidsrecht.
Arbeidsverhoudingen.
Master and servant.
Labor contract.
Indentured servants > Legal status, laws, etc.
LAW > Labor & Employment.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Contrat de travail > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Main-d'oeuvre engagee à long terme > Droit > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Employeur et employe (Droit) > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Contrat de travail > États-Unis > Histoire.
Main-d'oeuvre engagee à long terme > Droit > États-Unis > Histoire.
Employeur et employe (Droit) > États-Unis > Histoire.
Labor contract > Great Britain > History.
Indentured servants > Legal status, laws, etc. > Great Britain > History.
Master and servant > Great Britain > History.
Labor contract > United States > History.
Indentured servants > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > History.
Master and servant > United States > History.
United States.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The master-servant relationship in early modern england and the American colonies
  • 3. Labor imagined
  • 4. The freeborn englishman and the persistence of traditional service
  • 5. The ambiguous impact of the American revolution
  • 6. Working out the idea and practice of free labor
  • 7. The federal anti-peonage act of 1867
  • Conclusion. Self-ownership and self-government in the nineteenth century
  • Appendix. Habeas corpus file of runaway laborers, chesapeake and ohio canal company (1829).

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