The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870UNC Press Books, 01 փտվ, 2014 թ. - 286 էջ 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 al labor agreements punishable by imprisonment. By the eighteenth century, traditional legal restrictions no longer applied to many kinds of colonial workers, but it was not until the nineteenth century that indentured servitude came to be regarded as similar to slavery. |
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3 Labor Imagined | 55 |
4 The Freeborn Englishman and the Persistence of Traditional Service | 94 |
5 The Ambiguous Impact of the American Revolution | 122 |
6 Working Out the Idea and Practice of Free Labor | 147 |
7 The Federal AntiPeonage Act of 1867 | 173 |
Conclusion SelfOwnership and SelfGovernment in the Nineteenth Century | 185 |
Appendix Habeas Corpus File of Runaway Laborers Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company 1829 | 189 |
Notes | 197 |
Bibliography | 253 |
Index | 265 |
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