Robert J. Steinfeld

Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century

Herausgeber: Tomlins, Christopher

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents a fundamental reassessment of the nature of wage labor in the nineteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 709g
• ISBN-13: 9780521773607
• ISBN-10: 0521773601
• Artikelnr.: 29339742

Inhaltsangabe

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.