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Author : Douglas Hay
Release : 1988
Genre : Labor contract
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Book Synopsis Masters, Servants, Justices and Judges by : Douglas Hay
Download or read book Masters, Servants, Justices and Judges written by Douglas Hay. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Hay
Release : 2005-10-12
Genre : Law
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Book Synopsis Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 by : Douglas Hay
Download or read book Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 written by Douglas Hay. This book was released on 2005-10-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 presents the first integrated comparative account of employment law, its enforcement, and its importance throughout the British Empire. Sweeping in its geographic and temporal scope, this volume tests the relationship between enacted law and enforced law in varied settings, with different social and racial structures, different economies, and different constitutional relationships to Britain. Investigations of the enforcement of master and servant law in England, the British Caribbean, India, Africa, Hong Kong, Canada, Australia, and colonial America shed new light on the nature of law and legal institutions, the role of inferior courts in compelling performance, and the definition of "free labor" within a multiracial empire. Contributors: David M. Anderson, St. Antony's College, Oxford Michael Anderson, London School of Economics Jerry Bannister, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia M. K. Banton, National Archives of the United Kingdom, London Martin Chanock, La Trobe University, Australia Paul Craven, York University Juanita De Barros, McMaster University Christopher Frank, University of Manitoba Douglas Hay, York University Prabhu P. Mohapatra, Delhi University, India Christopher Munn, University of Hong Kong Michael Quinlan, University of New South Wales Richard Rathbone, University of Wales, Aberystwyth Christopher Tomlins, American Bar Foundation, Chicago Mary Turner, London University
Author : Alexander Macdonald (Solicitor)
Release : 1868
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Book Synopsis Handybook of the Law Relative to Masters, Workmen, Servants, and Apprentices, in All Trades and Occupations, Etc by : Alexander Macdonald (Solicitor)
Download or read book Handybook of the Law Relative to Masters, Workmen, Servants, and Apprentices, in All Trades and Occupations, Etc written by Alexander Macdonald (Solicitor). This book was released on 1868. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward SPIKE
Release : 1839
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Book Synopsis The Law of Master and Servant ... in Regard to Domestic Servants and Clerks, Etc by : Edward SPIKE
Download or read book The Law of Master and Servant ... in Regard to Domestic Servants and Clerks, Etc written by Edward SPIKE. This book was released on 1839. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Frank
Release : 2016-05-06
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Master and Servant Law by : Christopher Frank
Download or read book Master and Servant Law written by Christopher Frank. This book was released on 2016-05-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, social and legal historians have called into question the degree to which the labour that fuelled and sustained industrialization in England was actually ’free’. The corpus of statutes known as master and servant law has been a focal point of interest: throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, at the behest of employers, mine owners, and manufacturers, Parliament regularly supplemented and updated the provisions of these statutes with new legislation which contained increasingly harsh sanctions for workers who left work, performed it poorly, or committed acts of misbehaviour. The statutes were characterized by a double standard of sanctions, which treated workers’ breach of contract as a criminal offence, but offered only civil remedies for the broken promises of employers. Surprisingly little scholarship has looked into resistance to the Master and Servant laws. This book examines the tactics, rhetoric and consequences of a sustained legal and political campaign by English and Welsh trade unions, Chartists, and a few radical solicitors against the penal sanctions of employment law during the mid-nineteenth century. By bringing together historical narratives that are all too frequently examined in isolation, Christopher Frank is able to draw new conclusions about the development of the English legal system, trade unionism and popular politics of the period. The author demonstrates how the use of imprisonment for breach of a labour contract under master and servant law, and its enforcement by local magistrates, played a significant role in shaping labour markets, disciplining workers and combating industrial action in many regions of England and Wales, and further into the British Empire. By combining social and legal history the book reveals the complex relationship between parliamentary legislation, its interpretation by the high courts, and its enforcement by local officials. This work marks an important contribution to legal
