LEADER 03925nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910826092703321 005 20240418140315.0 010 $a979-88-908776-7-3 010 $a0-8078-7586-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000456647 035 $a(EBL)413198 035 $a(OCoLC)476236150 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000198888 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11180605 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000198888 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10185199 035 $a(PQKB)11764832 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL413198 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10116513 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL929599 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC413198 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000456647 100 $a20040113d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aMasters, servants, and magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 /$fedited by Douglas Hay and Paul Craven 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (607 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in legal history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4696-1473-1 311 $a0-8078-2877-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 529-559) and indexes. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; Note on Citations; 1. Introduction; 2. England, 1562-1875: The Law and Its Uses; 3. Early British America, 1585-1830: Freedom Bound; 4. Law and Labor in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland; 5. Canada, 1670-1935: Symbolic and Instrumental Enforcement in Loyalist North America; 6. Australia, 1788-1902: A Workingman's Paradise?; 7. The Colonial Office, 1820-1955: Constantly the Subject of Small Struggles; 8. The British Caribbean, 1823-1838: The Transition from Slave to Free Legal Status; 9. Urban British Guiana, 1838-1924: Wharf Rats, Centipedes, and Pork Knockers 327 $a10. South Africa, 1841-1924: Race, Contract, and Coercion11. Hong Kong, 1841-1870: All the Servants in Prison and Nobody to Take Care of the House; 12. Britain: The Defeat of the 1844 Master and Servants Bill; 13. India, 1858-1930: The Illusion of Free Labor; 14. Assam and the West Indies, 1860-1920: Immobilizing Plantation Labor; 15. West Africa, 1874-1948: Employment Legislation in a Nonsettler Peasant Economy; 16. Kenya, 1895-1939: Registration and Rough Justice; Bibliography of Secondary Works Cited; Contributors; Index of Statutes; General Index 330 $aMaster and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and children for breach of private contracts with their employers. The English model was adopted, modified, and reinvented in more than a thousand colonial statutes and ordinances regulating the recruitment, retention, and discipline of workers in shops, mines, and factories; on farms, in forests, and on plantations; and at sea. This collection p 410 0$aStudies in legal history. 606 $aMaster and servant$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aLabor contract$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aMaster and servant$zGreat Britain$xColonies$xHistory 606 $aLabor contract$zGreat Britain$xColonies$xHistory 615 0$aMaster and servant$xHistory. 615 0$aLabor contract$xHistory. 615 0$aMaster and servant$xColonies$xHistory. 615 0$aLabor contract$xColonies$xHistory. 676 $a346.4102/4 701 $aHay$b Douglas$0166121 701 $aCraven$b Paul$f1950-$0900664 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826092703321 996 $aMasters, servants, and magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955$94041244 997 $aUNINA