Captured consent : contract labor in English charity, colonization, and war, 1600-1700 / Sonia Tycko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tycko, Sonia, author.

Series:

Studies in legal history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor contract--England--History--17th century.

Labor contract.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Consent has been celebrated as a guarantor of liberty and self-determination; however, its history suggests a different meaning. In this book, Sonia Tycko reconstructs the coercive role of contracts in early modern English labor. The long-term, long-distance, and high-risk nature of pauper apprenticeships, transatlantic indentured servitude, military conscription, and prisoner of war labor drove some English people to develop consent into a tool of labor coercion. Coercion could constitute valid consent for people whose social position, age, and gender fit the profile of natural laborers. Many subordinates experienced consenting – or the presumption of their consent – as a form of acceptance of, or even submission to, their position. This book reveals that early modern labor was one of the fields in which ideas of freedom of contract, voluntariness, and enticement developed."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Agreement to apprenticeship under indenture

Consent in colonial service indentures

Enticement into servitude and sex

Indentured servant recruitment disputes in court

Dishonorable coercion in military impressment

“Willing” prisoners of war at work

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed February 4, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version : Tycko, Sonia, Captured concent,

ISBN:

9781009581905

1009581902

9781009581882

1009581880

OCLC:

1559038704

Publisher Number:

CIPO000312868

CIPO000320441

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license