Download or read book Reports from Committees written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reports from Select Committees of the House of Lords and Evidence written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Master and Servant Law written by Christopher Frank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, social and legal historians have called into question the degree to which the labour that fuelled and sustained industrialization in England was actually ’free’. The corpus of statutes known as master and servant law has been a focal point of interest: throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, at the behest of employers, mine owners, and manufacturers, Parliament regularly supplemented and updated the provisions of these statutes with new legislation which contained increasingly harsh sanctions for workers who left work, performed it poorly, or committed acts of misbehaviour. The statutes were characterized by a double standard of sanctions, which treated workers’ breach of contract as a criminal offence, but offered only civil remedies for the broken promises of employers. Surprisingly little scholarship has looked into resistance to the Master and Servant laws. This book examines the tactics, rhetoric and consequences of a sustained legal and political campaign by English and Welsh trade unions, Chartists, and a few radical solicitors against the penal sanctions of employment law during the mid-nineteenth century. By bringing together historical narratives that are all too frequently examined in isolation, Christopher Frank is able to draw new conclusions about the development of the English legal system, trade unionism and popular politics of the period. The author demonstrates how the use of imprisonment for breach of a labour contract under master and servant law, and its enforcement by local magistrates, played a significant role in shaping labour markets, disciplining workers and combating industrial action in many regions of England and Wales, and further into the British Empire. By combining social and legal history the book reveals the complex relationship between parliamentary legislation, its interpretation by the high courts, and its enforcement by local officials. This work marks an important contribution to legal

Download or read book Workers Unions and Payment in Kind written by Christopher Frank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the dramatic expansion of consumer culture from the beginning of the eighteenth century onwards and the developments in retailing, advertising and credit relationships in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there were a significant number of working families in Britain who were not fully free to consume as they chose. These employees were paid in truck, or in goods rather than currency. This book will explore and analyse the changing ways that truck and workplace deductions were experienced by different groups in British society, arguing that it was far more common than has previously been acknowledged. This analysis brings to light issues of class and gender; the discourse of free trade, popular politics and protest; the development of the trade union movement; and the use of the legal system as an instrument for bringing about social and legal change.

Download or read book Sessional Papers Printed by Order of the House of Lords Or Presented by Royal Command in the Session written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Inventing American Exceptionalism written by Amalia D. Kessler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly engaging account of the developments not only legal, but also socioeconomic, political, and cultural that gave rise to Americans distinctively lawyer-driven legal culture When Americans imagine their legal system, it is the adversarial trial dominated by dueling larger-than-life lawyers undertaking grand public performances that first comes to mind. But as award-winning author Amalia Kessler reveals in this engrossing history, it was only in the turbulent decades before the Civil War that adversarialism became a defining American practice and ideology, displacing alternative, more judge-driven approaches to procedure. By drawing on a broad range of methods and sources and by recovering neglected influences (including from Europe) the author shows how the emergence of the American adversarial legal culture was a product not only of developments internal to law, but also of wider socioeconomic, political, and cultural debates over whether and how to undertake market regulation and pursue racial equality. As a result, adversarialism came to play a key role in defining American legal institutions and practices, as well as national identity.

Download or read book Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report from the Select Committee on Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Parliamentary Papers and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sessional Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tables and Indexes written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report from the Select Committee on Rating of Mines together with the proceedings of the Committee Minutes of Evidence appendix and index written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Everyday Life of the English Working Class written by Carolyn Steedman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concerns two men, a stockingmaker and a magistrate, who both lived in a small English village at the turn of the nineteenth century. It focuses on Joseph Woolley the stockingmaker, on his way of seeing and writing the world around him, and on the activities of magistrate Sir Gervase Clifton, administering justice from his country house Clifton Hall. Using Woolley's voluminous diaries and Clifton's magistrate records, Carolyn Steedman gives us a unique and fascinating account of working-class living and loving, and getting and spending. Through Woolley and his thoughts on reading and drinking, sex, the law and social relations, she challenges traditional accounts which she argues have overstated the importance of work to the working man's understanding of himself, as a creature of time, place and society. She shows instead that, for men like Woolley, law and fiction were just as critical as work in framing everyday life.

Download or read book Report from the Select Committee on Education written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Education and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report from the Select Committee on Decimal Coinage written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Decimal Coinage and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report from the Select Committee on the Bank Acts written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Bank Acts and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report from the Select Committee on the Kafir Tribes written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Kafir Tribes and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: