The invention of free labor : the employment relation in English and American law and culture, 1350-1870 /

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 labor agreements punishable by imprisonment. By the eighteenth...

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Main Author: Steinfeld, Robert J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1991]
Series:Studies in legal history.
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Call Number: K888 .S74 1991
 
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