The Invention of Free Labor

The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870

Robert J. Steinfeld (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

286 Seiten

2002 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-5452-5 (ISBN)

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Examining the emergence of the modern conception of free labour - labour that could not be legally compelled, even though voluntarily agreed upon - Steinfeld explains how English law dominated the early American colonies, making violation of al labour agreements punishable by imprisonment.

Examining the emergence of the modern conception of free labor--labor that could not be legally compelled, even though voluntarily agreed upon--Steinfeld explains how English law dominated the early American colonies, making violation of al labor agreements punishable by imprisonment. By the eighteenth century, traditional legal restrictions no longer applied to many kinds of colonial workers, but it was not until the nineteenth century that indentured servitude came to be regarded as similar to slavery.

Reihe/Serie	Studies in Legal History
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	333 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-8078-5452-2 / 0807854522
ISBN-13	978-0-8078-5452-5 / 9780807854525
Zustand	Neuware