Government and Labor in Early America
Author : Richard B. Morris
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Page : pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Richard B. Morris
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Page : pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Richard Brandon Morris
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Page : 584 pages
File Size : 31,86 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
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"The experience of government with labor in the first two centuries of American history holds numerous clues to later developments and provides significant parallels to current patterns ... In considering early American labor relations this study is confined to an analysis of the legal and social position of free and bound labor."--Preface.
Author : Stephen Innes
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 36,98 MB
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807838586
Ten leading scholars of early American social history here examine the nature of work and labor in America from 1614 to 1820. The authors scrutinize work diaries, private and public records, and travelers' accounts. Subjects include farmers, farmwives, urban laborers, plantation slave workers, midwives, and sailors; locales range from Maine to the Caribbean and the high seas. These essays recover the regimen that consumed the waking hours of most adults in the New World, defined their economic lives, and shaped their larger existence. Focusing on individuals as well as groups, the authors emphasize the choices that, over time, might lead to prosperity or to the poorhouse. Few people enjoyed sinecures, and every day brought new risks. Stephen Innes introduces the collection by elucidating the prophetic vision of Captain John Smith: that the New World offered abundant reward for one's "owne industrie." Several motifs stand out in the essays. Family labor has begun to assume greater prominence, both as a collective work unit and as a collective economic unit whose members worked independently. Of growing interest to contemporary scholars is the role of family size and sex ratio in determining economic decision, and vice ersa. Work patterns appear to have been driven by the goal of creating surplus production for markets; perhaps because of a desire for higher consumption, work patterns began to intensify throughout the eighteenth century and led to longer work days with fewer slack periods. Overall, labor relations showed no consistent evolution but remained fluid and flexible in the face of changing market demands in highly diverse environments. The authors address as well the larger questions of American development and indicate the directions that research in this expanding field might follow.
Author : Richard B. Morris
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File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : Daniel E. Bender
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1479871257
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new stories of empire that intersect with the “grand narratives” of diplomatic affairs at the national and international levels. Missile defense, Cold War showdowns, development politics, military combat, tourism, and banana economics share something in common—they all have labor histories. This collection challenges historians to consider the labor that formed, worked, confronted, and rendered the U.S. empire visible. The U.S. empire is a project of global labor mobilization, coercive management, military presence, and forced cultural encounter. Together, the essays in this volume recognize the United States as a global imperial player whose systems of labor mobilization and migration stretched from Central America to West Africa to the United States itself. Workers are also the key actors in this volume. Their stories are multi-vocal, as workers sometimes defied the U.S. empire’s rhetoric of civilization, peace, and stability and at other times navigated its networks or benefited from its profits. Their experiences reveal the gulf between the American ‘denial of empire’ and the lived practice of management, resource exploitation, and military exigency. When historians place labor and working people at the center, empire appears as a central dynamic of U.S. history.
Author : Robert J. Steinfeld
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 1469616394
Examining the emergence of the modern conception of free labor--labor that could not be legally compelled, even though voluntarily agreed upon--Steinfeld explains how English law dominated the early American colonies, making violation of al labor agreements punishable by imprisonment. By the eighteenth century, traditional legal restrictions no longer applied to many kinds of colonial workers, but it was not until the nineteenth century that indentured servitude came to be regarded as similar to slavery.
Author : John Rogers Commons
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Page : 664 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Labor
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Author : Richard B. Morris
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1400856175
Offering the six historical essays from the out-of-print Bicentennial volume originally published by the U.S. Department of Labor, this book tells the richly dramatic and rewarding story of the working men and women who built the nation, from colonial settlement and the beginning of the republic through the modern labor movement and the space age. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Mark Twain
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 17,12 MB
Release : 1904
Category : City and town life
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Author : Willis Mason West
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Page : 868 pages
File Size : 30,45 MB
Release : 1913
Category : United States
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