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

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Steinfeld, Robert J.

 
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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.

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Robert J. Steinfeld is professor emeritus of law at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law.

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ISBN 10:  0807819883 ISBN 13:  9780807819883
Verlag: The University of North Carolina..., 1991
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