Masters, servants, and magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955
By: edited by Douglas Hay and Paul Craven.
Contributors: Hay, Douglas.; Craven, Paul, 1950-
Series: Studies in legal history
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 592
Subjects: Master and servant -- Great Britain -- History.; Labor contract -- Great Britain -- History.; Master and servant -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.; Labor contract -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 529-559) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: England, 1562-1875 : the law and its uses / Douglas Hay; title: Early British America, 1585-1830 : freedom bound / Christopher Tomlins; title: Law and labor in eighteenth-century Newfoundland / Jerry Bannister; title: Canada, 1670-1935 : symbolic and instrumental enforcement in loyalist North America / Paul Craven; title: Australia, 1788-1902 : a workingman's paradise? / Michael Quinlan; title: The Colonial Office, 1820-1955 : constantly the subject of small struggles / M. K. Banton; title: The British Caribbean, 1823-1838 : the transition from slave to free legal status / Mary Turner; title: Urban British Guiana, 1838-1924 : wharf rats, centipedes, and pork knockers / Juanita de Barros; title: South Africa, 1841-1924 : race, contract, and coercion / Martin Chanock; title: Hong Kong, 1841-1870 : all the servants in prison and nobody to take care of the house / Christopher Munn; title: Britain : the defeat of the 1844 master and servants bill / Christopher Frank; title: India, 1858-1930 : the illusion of free labor / Michael Anderson; title: Assam and the West Indies, 1860-1920 : immobilizing plantation labor / Prabhu P. Mohapatra; title: West Africa, 1874-1948 : employment legislation in a nonsettler peasant economy / Richard Rathbone; title: Kenya, 1895-1939 : registration and rough justice / David M. Anderson.