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

Steinfeld, Robert J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0807819883 ISBN 13 : 9780807819883

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 1991

Synopsis

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807819883
• ISBN 13: 9780807819883
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 286
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