Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discre

In recent years, social and legal historians have called into question the degree to which the labour that fuelled and sustained industrialization in England wa

In recent years, social and legal historians have called into question the degree to which the labour that fuelled and sustained industrialization in England wa

This book unfolds the story of the indenture system within the British Empire, with India as the 'mother country' of coolies.

Marc W. Steinberg throws a wrench into our understanding of the English Industrial Revolution - largely revising the thesis of Karl Polanyi's landmark 'The Grea