Free to Work: Labor Law, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1815-1880 by Schmidt, James D.

Free to Work: Labor Law, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1815-1880

In this intriguing and innovative work, James D. Schmidt examines federal efforts to establish "free labor" in...
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Author: James D. Schmidt
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Free to Work: Labor Law, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1815-1880 by Schmidt, James D.

Free to Work: Labor Law, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1815-1880

BD$112.50

Free to Work: Labor Law, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1815-1880

BD$112.50
Author: James D. Schmidt
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In this intriguing and innovative work, 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.

Author: James D. Schmidt
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 01/01/1999
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.49h x 6.46w x 1.18d
ISBN: 9780820320342

About the Author
JAMES D. SCHMIDT is an assistant professor of history at Northern Illinois University.

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