Masters, servants, and magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 / edited by Douglas Hay and Paul Craven.

Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

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Master and servant -- history.

Master and servant -- history -- United States.

Master and servant -- history -- Australia.

Labor laws and legislation -- history.

1. Introduction

2. England, 1562-1875: the law and its uses

3. Early British America, 1585-1830: freedom bound

4. Law and labour in eighteenth-century Newfoundland

5. Canada, 1670-1935: symbolic and instrumental enforcement in loyalist North America

6. Australia, 1788-1902: a workingman's paradise?

7. The colonial office, 1820-1955: constantly the subject of small struggles

8. The British Caribbean, 1823-1838: the transition from slave to free legal status

9. Urban British Guiana, 1838-1924: wharf rats, centipedes, and pork knockers

10. South Africa, 1841-1924: race, contract, and coercion

11. Hong Kong, 1841-1870: all the servants in prison and nobody to take care of the house

12. Britain: the defeat of the 1844 master and servants bill

13. India, 1858-1930: the illusion of free labour

14. Assam and the West Indies, 1860-1920: immobilizing plantation labour

15. West Africa, 1874-1948: employment legislation in a nonsettler peasant economy

16. Kenya, 1895-1939: Registration and rough justice.

Includes bibliography of secondary works cited and index.

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