[PDF.85sa] The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870 (Studies in Legal History)

The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870 (Studies in Legal History)

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 | #1917962 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  2002-06-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.65 x5.98l,.94 | File type: PDF | 286 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| The Past is a Foreign Country|By not me|One thing that good historical writing can do is to reveal the contingent and conditioned nature of social arrangements that may seem as "natural" to us as breathing air. By that standard, "The Invention of Free Labor" is very good history indeed. It reminds us how blurry was the line between work and slavery only 250 years ago, when wo| |Both for its own particular ideas, and as an example of what labor law history is beginning to achieve, it is a book to be recommended.|("Labor History")| |A superbly researched and analyzed work of historical and legal sc

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...

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