Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century more books like this

by Robert J Steinfeld, Christopher Tomlins (Editor)

This book presents a fundamental reassessment of the nature of wage labor in the nineteenth century, focusing on the use of sanctions to enforce wage labor agreements. Professor Steinfeld argues that wage workers were not employees at will but were often bound to their employment by enforceable labor agreements, which employers used whenever ...

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Horne: The White Pacific CL more books like this

by Gerald Horne

Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative markets, particularly in the South Pacific, and plantation agriculture grew substantially in disparate areas such as Australia, Fiji, and Hawaii. The increase in production required an increase in ...

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In View of the Great Want of Labor: A Legislative History of African American Conscription in the Confederacy more books like this

by E Renee Ingram

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