Amy Dru Stanley

From Bondage to Contract

Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780521635264
• ISBN-10: 0521635268
• Artikelnr.: 21687836

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Legends of contract freedom
2. Merchants of time: the labor question and the sale of self
3. "Beggars can't be choosers"
4. The testing ground of home life
5. Wage labor and marriage bonds
6. The purchase of women
Afterword.