The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870
by
Robert J. Steinfeld
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
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...