The invention of free labor the employment relation in English and American law and culture, 1350-1870

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Steinfeld, Robert J. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press 1991.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Studies in legal history.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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).