Law, labor, and ideology in the early American republic / / Christopher L. Tomlins [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Tomlins Christopher L. <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1993
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 406 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 344.73/01; 347.3041
• Soggetto topico: Labor laws and legislation - United States - History - 19th century; Industrial relations - United States - History - 19th century
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1, Law and the facts of American life: -- Law: the modality of rule -- Police: the pursuit of happiness -- An excess of democracy; -- pt. 2, Law, labor and state: -- Introduction: dictates of wise policy -- Combination and conspiracy -- The American consipiracy cases -- Commonwealth against Hunt; -- pt. 3, Law, authority, and the employment relationship: -- Introduction: the nonclemclature of power -- The law of master and servant -- Master and servant in republican America -- An interlude: on law and economy -- pt. 4, The new industrial order: -- Introduction: a sign of the times -- Mechanism -- The law of industrial accidents.
• Sommario/riassunto: Law, Labor, and Ideology in the Early American Republic is a fundamental reinterpretation of law and politics in America between 1790 and 1850, the crucial period of the Republic's early growth and its movement toward industrialism. The book is the most detailed study yet available of the intellectual and institutional processes that created the foundation categories framing all the basic legal relationships involving working people at work. But it also brings out the political and social significance of those categories, and of law's role in their creation. Tomlins argues that it is impossible to understand outcomes in the interaction between law and labor during the early Republic unless one also understands the pre-eminence that legal discourse was assuming at the time in American society as a whole, and the particular social and political reasons for that pre-eminence. Because of the breadth and novelty of its interpretation this is a book not just for those interested in the history of law or the history of labor, but for anyone interested in the broadstream of American political and social history.
• Altri titoli varianti: Law, Labor, & Ideology in the Early American Republic
• Titolo autorizzato: Law, labor, and ideology in the Early American republic
• ISBN: 0-511-09840-5; 0-511-58364-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247970003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: ACLS Humanities E-Book.