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)
Summary
Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and index
Notes
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