Captured Consent
Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600–1700
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2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-58189-9 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-58189-9 (ISBN)
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This book reveals how consent became a tool of labor coercion in seventeenth-century English apprenticeships, indentured servitude, military conscription, and prisoner of war labor. It will interest students and scholars of early modern legal, social, and economic history in British, European, and Atlantic contexts.
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 freedomof contract, voluntariness, and enticement developed.
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 freedomof contract, voluntariness, and enticement developed.
Sonia Tycko is Lecturer in the History of Labor at the University of Edinburgh. She held the Kinder Junior Research Fellowship at St. Peter's College and the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University. This is her first book.
Acknowledgments; List of illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Written Consent: 1. Agreement to apprenticeship under indenture; 2. Consent in colonial service indentures; Part II. Presumed Consent: 3. Enticement in servitude and sex; 4. Indentured servant recruitment disputes in court; Part III. The Edge of Consent: 5. Dishonorable coercion in military impressment; 6. 'Willing' prisoners of war at work; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.1.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Legal History |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-58189-9 / 1009581899 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-58189-9 / 9781009581899 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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