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Author Hay, Douglas

Title Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages)
Series Studies in Legal History
Studies in legal history.
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
Print version record
Subject Master and servant -- Great Britain -- History
Labor contract -- Great Britain -- History
Master and servant -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History
Labor contract -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History
Labor contract.
Master and servant.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Craven, Paul
LC no. 2004000731
ISBN 9780807875865
0807875864