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Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century

Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century

Steinfeld, Robert J.
Tomlins, Christopher

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Series: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society

Labor19th Century United States HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0521774004
ISBN13: 9780521774000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 5 2001
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book presents a fundamental reassessment of the nature of wage labor in the nineteenth century, focusing on the use of sanctions to enforce wage labor agreements. Professor Steinfeld argues that wage workers were not employees at will but were often bound to their employment by enforceable labor agreements, which employers used whenever available to manage their labor costs and supply. Modern free wage labor only came into being late in the nineteenth century, as a result of reform legislation that restricted the contract remedies employers could legally use.

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