An edition of Free to work (1998)

Free to work

labor law, emancipation, and reconstruction, 1815-1880

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An edition of Free to work (1998)

Free to work

labor law, emancipation, and reconstruction, 1815-1880

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James D. Schmidt examines federal efforts to establish "free labor" in the South during and after the Civil War by exploring labor law in the antebellum North and South and its role in the development of a capitalist labor market.

Identifying the emergence of conservative, moderate, and liberal stances on state intervention in the labor market, Schmidt develops three important case studies - wartime Reconstruction in Louisiana, the Thirteenth Amendment, and the Freedmen's Bureau - to conclude that the reconstruction of free labor in the South failed in large part because of the underdeveloped and contradictory state of labor law.

The same legal principles, Schmidt argues, triumphed in the postwar North to produce a capitalist market in labor.

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University of Georgia Press
Language
English
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331

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History, Labor contract, Employment, Labor market, African Americans, Free choice of employment, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Arbeitsrecht, Nordstaaten, Südstaaten, Geschichte 1815-1880, African americans, employment, Labor laws and legislation, united states, Southern states, history, Reconstruction

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Cover of: Free to work
Free to work: labor law, emancipation, and reconstruction, 1815-1880
1998, University of Georgia Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-321) and index.

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Athens
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Studies in the legal history of the South

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344.7501
Library of Congress
KF3457 .S36 1998, KF3457.S36 1998

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xii, 331 p. ;
Number of pages
331

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082032034X
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98022487
OCLC/WorldCat
39052425
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3885932

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