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Masters, servants, and magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 / edited by Douglas Hay and Paul Craven.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in legal history.
- 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--Great Britain--Colonies--History.
- Labor contract--Great Britain--Colonies--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (607 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 with their employers. The English model was adopted, modified, and reinvented in more than a thousand colonial statutes and ordinances regulating the recruitment, retention, and discipline of workers in shops, mines, and factories; on farms, in forests, and on plantations; and at sea. This collection p
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Citations; 1. Introduction; 2. England, 1562-1875: The Law and Its Uses; 3. Early British America, 1585-1830: Freedom Bound; 4. Law and Labor in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland; 5. Canada, 1670-1935: Symbolic and Instrumental Enforcement in Loyalist North America; 6. Australia, 1788-1902: A Workingman's Paradise?; 7. The Colonial Office, 1820-1955: Constantly the Subject of Small Struggles; 8. The British Caribbean, 1823-1838: The Transition from Slave to Free Legal Status; 9. Urban British Guiana, 1838-1924: Wharf Rats, Centipedes, and Pork Knockers
- 10. South Africa, 1841-1924: Race, Contract, and Coercion11. Hong Kong, 1841-1870: All the Servants in Prison and Nobody to Take Care of the House; 12. Britain: The Defeat of the 1844 Master and Servants Bill; 13. India, 1858-1930: The Illusion of Free Labor; 14. Assam and the West Indies, 1860-1920: Immobilizing Plantation Labor; 15. West Africa, 1874-1948: Employment Legislation in a Nonsettler Peasant Economy; 16. Kenya, 1895-1939: Registration and Rough Justice; Bibliography of Secondary Works Cited; Contributors; Index of Statutes; General Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 529-559) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9798890877673
- 9780807875865
- 0807875864
- OCLC:
- 476236150
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