Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780521774000
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Labour economics; United States - 19th Century; Labor; History; History - U.S.; United States; History: World; USA; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; History / Great Britain; Labor contract--Great Britain--Criminal provisions--History; Great Britain; Western Europe - General; Criminal provisions; Forced labor; Labor contract; Law and legislation
First sentence: Although the main concern of this book is wage labor in the nineteenth century, I want to begin by approaching the subject through the back door, as it were.