The Invention of Free Labor
The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11877429 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Charles Hoffer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 468-468 |
| Publication date | 1993-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The invention of free labor: The employment relation in English and American law and culture, 1350-1870, Robert J Steinfeld, 1991 |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2166854 |
| OpenAlex | W2076033063 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
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
Colonialism · Imprisonment · Labor relations · Labour law · Political science · Relation (database · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · International Labor and Employment Law · Law
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