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Masters, servants, and magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 / edited by Douglas Hay and Paul Craven.
Van Pelt Library KD1634.A75 M37 2004
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in legal history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Master and servant--Great Britain--History.
- Master and servant.
- Labor contract--Great Britain--History.
- Labor contract.
- Master and servant--Colonies--Great Britain--History.
- Colonies.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Labor contract--Colonies--Great Britain--History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 592 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- Covering four hundred years of the history of the British empire, these fifteen essays by international experts present an integrated examination of master and servant legislation--the cornerstone of British labor law--and its enforcement throughout the empire by largely unsupervised local magistrates.
- Contents:
- 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 Africa, 1874-1948 : employment legislation in a nonsettler peasant economy / Richard Rathbone
- Kenya, 1895-1939 : registration and rough justice / David M. Anderson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-559) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0807828777
- OCLC:
- 54029413
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