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- catalog abstract "Annotation 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 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.".
- catalog contributor b3376730.
- catalog created "c1991.".
- catalog date "1991".
- catalog date "c1991.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1991.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. The master-servant relationship in early modern england and the American colonies -- 3. Labor imagined -- 4. The freeborn englishman and the persistence of traditional service -- 5. The ambiguous impact of the American revolution -- 6. Working out the idea and practice of free labor -- 7.The federal anti-peonage act of 1867 -- Conclusion. Self-ownership and self-government in the nineteenth century -- Appendix. Habeas corpus file of runaway laborers, chesapeake and ohio canal company (1829)".
- catalog description "Annotation 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 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-263) and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 277 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Invention of free labor.".
- catalog identifier "0807819883 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Invention of free labor.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in legal history".
- catalog issued "1991".
- catalog issued "c1991.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Invention of free labor.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "346.42/024 344.20624 20".
- catalog subject "Indentured servants Legal status, laws, etc. Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Indentured servants Legal status, laws, etc. United States History.".
- catalog subject "K888 .S74 1991".
- catalog subject "Labor contract Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Labor contract United States History.".
- catalog subject "Master and servant Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Master and servant United States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. The master-servant relationship in early modern england and the American colonies -- 3. Labor imagined -- 4. The freeborn englishman and the persistence of traditional service -- 5. The ambiguous impact of the American revolution -- 6. Working out the idea and practice of free labor -- 7.The federal anti-peonage act of 1867 -- Conclusion. Self-ownership and self-government in the nineteenth century -- Appendix. Habeas corpus file of runaway laborers, chesapeake and ohio canal company (1829)".
- catalog title "The invention of free labor : the employment relation in English and American law and culture, 1350-1870 / Robert J. Steinfeld.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".