The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870Examining 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 |
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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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Էջ 2 - Not ideas, but material and ideal interests, directly govern men's conduct. Yet very frequently the ‘world images' that have been created by ‘ideas' have, like switchmen, determined the tracks along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interest.
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| Վերնագիր | The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870 Studies in legal history |
| Հեղինակ | Robert J. Steinfeld |
| Հրատարակիչ | UNC Press Books, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0807854522, 9780807854525 |
| Length | 286 էջ |
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