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Title Masters, servants, and magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 / edited by Douglas Hay and Paul Craven
Published Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 592 pages)
Series Studies in legal history
Studies in legal history.
Contents England, 1562-1875 : the law and its uses / Douglas Hay -- Early British America, 1585-1830 : freedom bound / Christopher Tomlins -- Law and labor in eighteenth-century Newfoundland / Jerry Bannister -- Canada, 1670-1935 : symbolic and instrumental enforcement in loyalist North America / Paul Craven -- Australia, 1788-1902 : a workingman's paradise? / Michael Quinlan -- The Colonial Office, 1820-1955 : constantly the subject of small struggles / M.K. Banton -- The British Caribbean, 1823-1838 : the transition from slave to free legal status / Mary Turner -- Urban British Guiana, 1838-1924 : wharf rats, centipedes, and pork knockers / Juanita de Barros -- South Africa, 1841-1924 : race, contract, and coercion / Martin Chanock -- Hong Kong, 1841-1870 : all the servants in prison and nobody to take care of the house / Christopher Munn -- Britain : the defeat of the 1844 master and servants bill / Christopher Frank -- India, 1858-1930 : the illusion of free labor / Michael Anderson -- Assam and the West Indies, 1860-1920 : immobilizing plantation labor / Prabhu P. Mohapatra -- West Afrira, 1874-1948 : employment legislation in a nonsettler peasant economy / Richard Rathbone -- Kenya, 1895-1939 : registration and rough justice / David M. Anderson
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, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and children for breach of private contracts with their employers. The English model was adopted, modified, and reinvented in more than a thousand colonial statutes and ordinances regulating the recruitment, retention, and discipline of workers in shops, mines, and factories; on farms, in forests, and on plantations; and at sea. This collection p
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-559) and indexes
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Subject Master and servant -- Great Britain -- History
Labor contract -- Great Britain -- History
Master and servant -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
Labor contract -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Labor contract
Master and servant
Meesters.
Employés.
Arbeidsverhoudingen.
Wetten.
Juridische aspecten.
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hay, Douglas, editor.
Craven, Paul, 1950- editor.
William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, sponsoring body.
LC no. 2004000731
ISBN 0807875864
9780807875865