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 2002 the International Labour Organization issued a report titled ‘Decent work and the informal economy’ in which it stressed the need to ensure appropri

In nineteenth-century England, legal conceptions of work and family changed in fundamental ways. Notably, significant legal moves came into play that changed th

Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents an