Robert J Steinfeld
Biographic Data
| ID | 1159684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert J Steinfeld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert J |
| FAMILY NAME | Steinfeld |
| SIGNATURE | STEINFELD R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Suffrage and the Terms of Labor
Great books often harbor deep tensions, which are one source of their enduring power. Time on the Cross by Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman is a good example (Fogel and Engerman 1974). On the one hand, Time on the Cross argued that the economic science of Cliometrics was indispensable for a proper understanding of the past. Human beings have always been primarily motivated by the desire for gain, and to understand their behavior it is essential …
Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century Get access Steinfeld Robert J., Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xi, 329 pp. $59.95. James D. Schmidt James D. Schmidt Northern Illinois University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 46, Issue 4, October 2004, Pages 503–504, https://doi…
Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
In this sequel to his 1991 The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350–1870, Robert J. Steinfeld, a law professor at the State University of New York-Buffalo, continues to explore the emergence of the modern conception of “free labor.” His primary argument here is that the general belief that labor in the past (or, for that matter, in the present) was/is either “unfree” (as in slavery or serf…
Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
This book presents a fundamental reassessment of the nature of wage labor in the nineteenth century, focusing on the common use of penal sanctions in England to enforce wage labor agreements. Professor Steinfeld argues that wage workers were not employees at will but were often bound to their employment by enforceable labor agreements, which employers used whenever available to manage their labor costs and supply. In the northern United States, w…
Subjectship, Citizenship, and the Long History of Immigration Regulation
Kunal Parker's “State, Citizenship, and Territory” can be read in at least two ways. Read one way, it tells an important story about how regulation of the poor was driven upward in Massachusetts during the nineteenth century, from the localities to the state. In the seventeenth century, Massachusetts had imposed primary responsibility for care of the poor on its towns. But during the eighteenth century, with the growth of a landless, wandering po…
Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
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 Cou…
The People's Welfare
Law, Labor, and Ideology in the Early American Republic
Labor's Sorrow? Workers, Bosses, and the Courts in Antebellum America
Historians have long drawn attention to the role of American courts in the history of and plight of the labor movement in antebellum America. From their antebellum interpretation of slave codes and common law rules regarding indentured servants, apprentices, hired hands, and artisans to their treatment in the Progressive Era and beyond of protective legislation, the courts have long been regarded, quite correctly, as the final arbiters of labor's…
The Invention of Free Labor
The Invention of Free Labor
Journal Article The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350–1870 Get access Steinfeld Robert J., The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350–1870. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. viii, 277 pp. $39.95. L. R. Poos L. R. Poos The Catholic University of America Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
The Invention of Free Labor
The Invention of Free Labor
Journal Article The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350–1870. By Robert J. Steinfeld. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. viii + 277 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-1988-3.) Get access Bruce Laurie Bruce Laurie University of Massachusetts, Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September…
The invention of free labor
Annotation
Property and Suffrage in the Early American Republic
In 1792, the state of New Hampshire amended its constitution to exclude "paupers" from the suffrage.'Later
Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
This book presents a fundamental reassessment of the nature of wage labor in the nineteenth century, focusing on the common use of penal sanctions in England to enforce wage labor agreements. Professor Steinfeld argues that wage workers were not employees at will but were often bound to their employment by enforceable labor agreements, which employers used whenever available to manage their labor costs and supply. In the northern United States, w…
The invention of free labor
Annotation
Property and Suffrage in the Early American Republic
In 1792, the state of New Hampshire amended its constitution to exclude "paupers" from the suffrage.'Later
Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
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 Cou…
The Invention of Free Labor
Journal Article The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350–1870. By Robert J. Steinfeld. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. viii + 277 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-1988-3.) Get access Bruce Laurie Bruce Laurie University of Massachusetts, Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September…
Property and Suffrage in the Early American Republic
In 1792, the state of New Hampshire amended its constitution to exclude "paupers" from the suffrage.'Later
The invention of free labor
Annotation
The Invention of Free Labor
Journal Article The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350–1870. By Robert J. Steinfeld. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. viii + 277 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-1988-3.) Get access Bruce Laurie Bruce Laurie University of Massachusetts, Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September…
Labor's Sorrow? Workers, Bosses, and the Courts in Antebellum America
Historians have long drawn attention to the role of American courts in the history of and plight of the labor movement in antebellum America. From their antebellum interpretation of slave codes and common law rules regarding indentured servants, apprentices, hired hands, and artisans to their treatment in the Progressive Era and beyond of protective legislation, the courts have long been regarded, quite correctly, as the final arbiters of labor's…
The Invention of Free Labor
The Invention of Free Labor
Journal Article The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350–1870 Get access Steinfeld Robert J., The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350–1870. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. viii, 277 pp. $39.95. L. R. Poos L. R. Poos The Catholic University of America Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
The Invention of Free Labor
Law, Labor, and Ideology in the Early American Republic
The People's Welfare
Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
This book presents a fundamental reassessment of the nature of wage labor in the nineteenth century, focusing on the common use of penal sanctions in England to enforce wage labor agreements. Professor Steinfeld argues that wage workers were not employees at will but were often bound to their employment by enforceable labor agreements, which employers used whenever available to manage their labor costs and supply. In the northern United States, w…
Subjectship, Citizenship, and the Long History of Immigration Regulation
Kunal Parker's “State, Citizenship, and Territory” can be read in at least two ways. Read one way, it tells an important story about how regulation of the poor was driven upward in Massachusetts during the nineteenth century, from the localities to the state. In the seventeenth century, Massachusetts had imposed primary responsibility for care of the poor on its towns. But during the eighteenth century, with the growth of a landless, wandering po…
Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
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 Cou…
Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
In this sequel to his 1991 The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350–1870, Robert J. Steinfeld, a law professor at the State University of New York-Buffalo, continues to explore the emergence of the modern conception of “free labor.” His primary argument here is that the general belief that labor in the past (or, for that matter, in the present) was/is either “unfree” (as in slavery or serf…
Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century Get access Steinfeld Robert J., Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xi, 329 pp. $59.95. James D. Schmidt James D. Schmidt Northern Illinois University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 46, Issue 4, October 2004, Pages 503–504, https://doi…
Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
Suffrage and the Terms of Labor
Great books often harbor deep tensions, which are one source of their enduring power. Time on the Cross by Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman is a good example (Fogel and Engerman 1974). On the one hand, Time on the Cross argued that the economic science of Cliometrics was indispensable for a proper understanding of the past. Human beings have always been primarily motivated by the desire for gain, and to understand their behavior it is essential …
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