Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
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ISBN-13:
9780521774000
Veröffentl:
2010
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
14.10.2010
Seiten:
342
Autor:
Robert J. Steinfeld
Gewicht:
556 g
Format:
229x152x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Presents a fundamental reassessment of the nature of wage labor in the nineteenth century.
Introduction: free wage labor in the history of the West; Part I. American Contract Labor and English Wage Labor: The Use of Pecuniary and Nonpecuniary Pressure: 1. 'Free' contract labor in the United States: an anti-essentialist view of labor types I; 2. 'Unfree' wage labor in nineteenth-century England: an anti-essentialist view of labor types II; 3. Explaining the legal content of English wage labor; 4. Struggles over the rules: the Common Law Courts, parliament, the people, and the master and servant acts; 5. Struggles under the rules: strategic behavior and historical change in legal context; 6. Struggles to change the rules; 7. Freedom of contract and freedom of person; Part II. 'Free' and 'Unfree' Labor in the United States: 8. 'Involuntary servitude' in American fundamental law; 9. Labor contract enforcement in the American north; Conclusion.
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