Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) |
Series |
Studies in Legal History |
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Studies in legal history.
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Contents |
Acknowledgments; Note on Citations; 1. Introduction; 2. England, 1562-1875: The Law and Its Uses; 3. Early British America, 1585-1830: Freedom Bound; 4. Law and Labor in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland; 5. Canada, 1670-1935: Symbolic and Instrumental Enforcement in Loyalist North America; 6. Australia, 1788-1902: A Workingman's Paradise?; 7. The Colonial Office, 1820-1955: Constantly the Subject of Small Struggles; 8. The British Caribbean, 1823-1838: The Transition from Slave to Free Legal Status; 9. Urban British Guiana, 1838-1924: Wharf Rats, Centipedes, and Pork Knockers |
Summary |
Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations. This is ant integrated comparative account of employment law, its enforcement, and its importance throughout the British Empire |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 529-559) and indexes |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Master and servant -- Great Britain -- History
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Labor contract -- Great Britain -- History
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Master and servant -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History
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Labor contract -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History
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Labor contract.
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Master and servant.
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Great Britain.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Craven, Paul
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LC no. |
2004000731 |
ISBN |
9780807875865 |
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0807875864 |
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