In this Book
- The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
- Series: Studies in Legal History
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- 1 Introduction
- pp. 3-14
- 3 Labor Imagined
- pp. 55-93
- 7 The Federal Anti-Peonage Act of 1867
- pp. 173-184
- Bibliography
- pp. 253-264
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469616407
Related ISBN(s)
9780807819883, 9780807854525, 9781469616391
MARC Record
OCLC
551252553
Pages
286
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No