Masters, servants, and magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 /:

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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Weitere Verfasser: Hay, Douglas (HerausgeberIn), Craven, Paul, 1950- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
Schriftenreihe:Studies in legal history.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 592 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-559) and indexes.
ISBN:0807875864
9780807875865

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