Grasp and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment legislations for greater than 400 years, gave mostly unsupervised, inferior magistrates extensive discretion over employment kin, together with the facility to whip, nice, and imprison males, ladies, and youngsters for breach of personal contracts with their employers. The English version was once followed, converted, and reinvented in additional than one thousand colonial statutes and ordinances regulating the recruitment, retention, and self-discipline of employees in outlets, mines, and factories; on farms, in forests, and on plantations; and at sea. This assortment offers the 1st built-in comparative account of employment legislations, its enforcement, and its value during the British Empire.
Sweeping in its geographic and temporal scope, this quantity exams the connection among enacted legislations and enforced legislations in diversified settings, with various social and racial constructions, diversified economies, and various constitutional relationships to Britain. Investigations of the enforcement of grasp and servant legislations in England, the British Caribbean, India, Africa, Hong Kong, Canada, Australia, and colonial the US shed new mild at the nature of legislation and felony associations, the position of inferior courts in compelling functionality, and the definition of "free exertions" inside of a multiracial empire.
Contributors:
David M. Anderson, St. Antony's university, Oxford
Michael Anderson, London college of Economics
Jerry Bannister, Dalhousie collage, Nova Scotia
M. okay. Banton, nationwide records of the uk, London
Martin Chanock, los angeles Trobe collage, Australia
Paul Craven, York University
Juanita De Barros, McMaster University
Christopher Frank, college of Manitoba
Douglas Hay, York University
Prabhu P. Mohapatra, Delhi collage, India
Christopher Munn, collage of Hong Kong
Michael Quinlan, collage of latest South Wales
Richard Rathbone, college of Wales, Aberystwyth
Christopher Tomlins, American Bar origin, Chicago
Mary Turner, London University
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