Masters, servants, and magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 / edited by Douglas Hay and Paul Craven.
Publisher's description: 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 b...
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| 300 | |a xi, 592 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-559) and indexes. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Introduction / |r Douglas Hay |g and |r Paul Craven -- |t England, 1562-1875 : the law and its uses / |r Douglas Hay -- |t Early British America, 1585-1830 : freedom bound / |r Christopher Tomlins -- |t Law and labor in eighteenth-century Newfoundland / |r Jerry Bannister -- |t Canada, 1670-1935 : symbolic and instrumental enforcement in loyalist North America / |r Paul Craven -- |t Australia, 1788-1902 : a workingman's paradise? / |r Michael Quinlan -- |t The Colonial Office, 1820-1955 : constantly the subject of small struggles / |r M.K. Banton -- |t The British Caribbean, 1823-1838 : the transition from slave to free legal status / |r Mary Turner -- |t Urban British Guiana, 1838-1924 : wharf rats, centipedes, and pork knockers / |r Juanita de Barros -- |t South Africa, 1841-1924 : race, contract, and coercion / |r Martin Chanock -- |t Hong Kong, 1841-1870 : all the servants in prison and nobody to take care of the house / |r Christopher Munn -- |t Britain : the defeat of the 1844 master and servants bill / |r Christopher Frank -- |t India, 1858-1930 : the illusion of free labor / |r Michael Anderson -- |t Assam and the West Indies, 1860-1920 : immobilizing plantation labor / |r Prabhu P. Mohapatra -- |t West Afrira, 1874-1948 : employment legislation in a nonsettler peasant economy / |r Richard Rathbone -- |t Kenya, 1895-1939 : registration and rough justice / |r David M. Anderson. |
| 520 | |a Publisher's description: 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 presents the first integrated comparative account of employment law, its enforcement, and its importance throughout the British Empire. Sweeping in its geographic and temporal scope, this volume tests the relationship between enacted law and enforced law in varied settings, with different social and racial structures, different economies, and different constitutional relationships to Britain. Investigations of the enforcement of master and servant law in England, the British Caribbean, India, Africa, Hong Kong, Canada, Australia, and colonial America shed new light on the nature of law and legal institutions, the role of inferior courts in compelling performance, and the definition of "free labor" within a multiracial empire. | ||
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