Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century

Robert J. Steinfeld (State University of New York, Buffalo)

Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
12 February 2001
Pages
342
ISBN
9780521773607

Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century

Robert J. Steinfeld (State University of New York, Buffalo)

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 available to manage their labor costs and supply. Modern free wage labor only came into being late in the nineteenth century, as a result of reform legislation that restricted the contract remedies employers could legally use.

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