The Invention of Free Labor The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870 / Robert J. Steinfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinfeld, Robert J.

Series:

Studies in Legal History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor contract--Great Britain--History.

Labor contract.

Indentured servants--Legal status, laws, etc--Great Britain--History.

Indentured servants.

Master and servant--Great Britain--History.

Master and servant.

Labor contract--United States--History.

Indentured servants--Legal status, laws, etc--United States--History.

Master and servant--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 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); Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N

OP; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-263) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908669-9-8

979-88-9313-081-2

1-4696-1640-8

1-4696-1639-4

OCLC:

551252553