James D Schmidt
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3978095 |
|---|---|
| NOME | James D Schmidt |
| PRENOMES | James D |
| SOBRENOME | Schmidt |
| ASSINATURA | SCHMIDT J D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-0085-7891 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
A Mixture of Empathy and Fear
The Evolution of the Juvenile Court
Barry C. Feld has been a longtime advocate for young people and a critic of the juvenile justice system. The Evolution of the Juvenile Court culminates his career, bringing together broad and deep knowledge across numerous fields to make a powerful argument for change. The book will be highly valuable for scholars in various disciplines and for policy makers across the United States and beyond. In the book's opening sections, Feld surveys the soc…
Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor
Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor challenges existing understandings of child labor by tracing how law altered the meanings of work for young people in the United States between the Revolution and the Great Depression. Rather than locating these shifts in statutory reform or economic development, it finds the origin in litigations that occurred in the wake of industrial accidents incurred by young workers. Drawing on archiv…
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Lincoln Emancipated
Abraham Lincoln has long been revered by blacks and whites alike as the Great Emancipator. In recent years, however, this image has come under assault by scholars who question Lincoln's commitment to racial equality and who assert that he was in fact, as Frederick Douglass once noted, the white man's president. Such arguments challenging deep-seated assumptions about our nation's most beloved leader demand serious investigation. What personal bel…
The Ends of Innocence
This article considers two recent books in the history of childhood, youth, and the law: Holly Brewer, By Birth or Consent and Stephen Robertson, Crimes Against Children. It argues that these works mark the emergence of age as a category of analysis in sociolegal studies. It calls for further investigations in the legal history of childhood and youth, outlines several areas of interest, and suggests that attention to age will alter how scholars l…
Restless Movements Characteristic of Childhood”
Elias Berdos had not yet reached the age of fourteen when he arrived in the United States in the first decade of the twentieth century. Three weeks after debarking, he applied to Tremont and Suffolk Mills in Lowell, Massachusetts and was put to work in the textile factory's spinning room, tending the mules as many boys his age did. Inexperienced at factory labor and unable to speak English, he ventured forth into the helter-skelter world of a cot…
American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety
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…
Only One Place of Redress
Free to Work
Journal Article Free to Work: Labor Law, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1815–1880 Get access Schmidt James D., Free to Work: Labor Law, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1815–1880. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. 352 pp. $53.00. Lea Vandervelde Lea Vandervelde University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 45, Issue 4, October 2001, Pages 522–524,…
The Bondsman's Burden
Free to Work
Half Slave and Half Free
Restless Movements Characteristic of Childhood”
Elias Berdos had not yet reached the age of fourteen when he arrived in the United States in the first decade of the twentieth century. Three weeks after debarking, he applied to Tremont and Suffolk Mills in Lowell, Massachusetts and was put to work in the textile factory's spinning room, tending the mules as many boys his age did. Inexperienced at factory labor and unable to speak English, he ventured forth into the helter-skelter world of a cot…
Half Slave and Half Free
The Bondsman's Burden
Free to Work
Free to Work
Journal Article Free to Work: Labor Law, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1815–1880 Get access Schmidt James D., Free to Work: Labor Law, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1815–1880. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. 352 pp. $53.00. Lea Vandervelde Lea Vandervelde University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 45, Issue 4, October 2001, Pages 522–524,…
Only One Place of Redress
American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety
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…
Restless Movements Characteristic of Childhood”
Elias Berdos had not yet reached the age of fourteen when he arrived in the United States in the first decade of the twentieth century. Three weeks after debarking, he applied to Tremont and Suffolk Mills in Lowell, Massachusetts and was put to work in the textile factory's spinning room, tending the mules as many boys his age did. Inexperienced at factory labor and unable to speak English, he ventured forth into the helter-skelter world of a cot…
The Ends of Innocence
This article considers two recent books in the history of childhood, youth, and the law: Holly Brewer, By Birth or Consent and Stephen Robertson, Crimes Against Children. It argues that these works mark the emergence of age as a category of analysis in sociolegal studies. It calls for further investigations in the legal history of childhood and youth, outlines several areas of interest, and suggests that attention to age will alter how scholars l…
Lincoln Emancipated
Abraham Lincoln has long been revered by blacks and whites alike as the Great Emancipator. In recent years, however, this image has come under assault by scholars who question Lincoln's commitment to racial equality and who assert that he was in fact, as Frederick Douglass once noted, the white man's president. Such arguments challenging deep-seated assumptions about our nation's most beloved leader demand serious investigation. What personal bel…
Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor
Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor challenges existing understandings of child labor by tracing how law altered the meanings of work for young people in the United States between the Revolution and the Great Depression. Rather than locating these shifts in statutory reform or economic development, it finds the origin in litigations that occurred in the wake of industrial accidents incurred by young workers. Drawing on archiv…
Featured review
The Evolution of the Juvenile Court
Barry C. Feld has been a longtime advocate for young people and a critic of the juvenile justice system. The Evolution of the Juvenile Court culminates his career, bringing together broad and deep knowledge across numerous fields to make a powerful argument for change. The book will be highly valuable for scholars in various disciplines and for policy makers across the United States and beyond. In the book's opening sections, Feld surveys the soc…
A Mixture of Empathy and Fear
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