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From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation Stanley, Amy Dru (University of Chicago)
From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation
Stanley, Amy Dru (University of Chicago)
This 1999 book explores the centrality of contract to debates over freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century America. It focuses on the contracts of wage labor and marriage, investigating the connections between abolition in the South and industrial capitalism in the North and linking labor relations to home life.
294 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | November 13, 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521635264 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 294 |
| Dimensions | 228 × 151 × 25 mm · 438 g |
| Language | English |