Masters, servants, and magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 / edited by Douglas Hay and Paul Craven.
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 wit...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill ; London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2004]
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| Series: | Studies in legal history.
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| Online Access: | HeinOnline Legal Classics Library Table of contents Publisher description |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 592 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0807875864 9780807875865 |