The Invention of Free Labor

The Invention of Free Labor

Forfatter: Robert J. Steinfeld
Forlag: The University of North Carolina Press
Udgivelsesdato: 2014
ISBN: 9780807854525

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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 al 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.

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