Masters And Servants

Author : Scott P. Stephen
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781772124972

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Masters and Servants by Scott P. Stephen Pdf

“[Stephen] offers fresh insight into the path a historic fur trading business took to become one of Canada’s most recognizable retailers.” —Literary Review of Canada In Masters and Servants, Scott P. Stephen reveals startling truths about Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) workers. Rather than dedicating themselves body and soul to the Company’s interests, these men were hired like domestic servants, joining a “household” with its attendant norms of duty and loyalty. The household system produced a remarkably stable political-economic entity, connecting early North American resource extraction to larger trends in British imperialism. Through painstaking research, Stephen shines welcome light on the lives of these largely overlooked individuals. An essential book for labor historians, Masters and Servants will appeal to scholars of early modern Britain, the North American fur trade, Western social history, business history, and anyone intrigued by the reach of the HBC. “Blacksmiths, bookkeepers, loggers, tanners, coopers, cooks, sail-makers, interpreters, surveyors, clergy, the list goes on as Stephen marches us through the lives of the early Hudson’s Bay worker.” —The Ormsby Review “Overall, the book reflects the work of a historian comfortable with the hard work of archival research and with an eye for detail and insightful quotations. In many respects, it does for Hudson’s Bay Company employees what Carolyn Podruchny’s Making the Voyageur World did for employees of the Montreal-based fur trade companies in recreating their values, worldview, and distinctive work environment.” —Michael Payne, Prairie History

Author : Douglas Hay,Paul Craven
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780807875865

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Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 by Douglas Hay,Paul Craven Pdf

Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and children for breach of private contracts with their employers. The English model was adopted, modified, and reinvented in more than a thousand colonial statutes and ordinances regulating the recruitment, retention, and discipline of workers in shops, mines, and factories; on farms, in forests, and on plantations; and at sea. This collection presents the first integrated comparative account of employment law, its enforcement, and its importance throughout the British Empire. Sweeping in its geographic and temporal scope, this volume tests the relationship between enacted law and enforced law in varied settings, with different social and racial structures, different economies, and different constitutional relationships to Britain. Investigations of the enforcement of master and servant law in England, the British Caribbean, India, Africa, Hong Kong, Canada, Australia, and colonial America shed new light on the nature of law and legal institutions, the role of inferior courts in compelling performance, and the definition of "free labor" within a multiracial empire. Contributors: David M. Anderson, St. Antony's College, Oxford Michael Anderson, London School of Economics Jerry Bannister, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia M. K. Banton, National Archives of the United Kingdom, London Martin Chanock, La Trobe University, Australia Paul Craven, York University Juanita De Barros, McMaster University Christopher Frank, University of Manitoba Douglas Hay, York University Prabhu P. Mohapatra, Delhi University, India Christopher Munn, University of Hong Kong Michael Quinlan, University of New South Wales Richard Rathbone, University of Wales, Aberystwyth Christopher Tomlins, American Bar Foundation, Chicago Mary Turner, London University

Author : Pierre Michon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780300199055

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Masters and Servants by Pierre Michon Pdf

One of Pierre Michon's most powerful works, this book imagines decisive moments in the lives of five artists of different times and places: Vincent van Gogh, Francisco Goya, Antoine Watteau, Claude Lorrain, and Lorentino, a little-remembered disciple of Piero della Francesca. Michon focuses on particular moments when artist and model collide, whether that model is a person or a landscape, inner or outer. In the five separate tales he evokes the full passion of the artist's struggle to capture the world in images even as the world resists capture. Each story is a small masterpiece that transcends national boundaries and earns its place among the essential works of world literature.

Author : Claire Lowrie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784997939

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Masters and servants by Claire Lowrie Pdf

Illustrates the centrality of domestic politics to colonial rule and the ways in which mastery over servants was a key expression of colonial power

Author : Horace Gay Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Employers' liability
ISBN : OSU:32437011439003

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A Treatise on the Law of Master and Servant by Horace Gay Wood Pdf

Author : Alison Sim
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752495668

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Masters and Servants in Tudor England by Alison Sim Pdf

Although life in Tudor was ordered in a strict hierarchy, service was common for all classes, and servants were not necessarily the lowest stratum in society. This book looks at the servant life in the Tudor period. It examines relations between servants and their masters, peering into the bedrooms, kitchens and parlours of the ordinary folk.

Author : Sarah C. Maza
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400856077

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Servants and Masters in 18th-Century France by Sarah C. Maza Pdf

Here is the first major study of domestic service in France from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century, describing its transformation from a male-oriented occupation, aristocratic in style and often geared to public display, to one that was female, middle-class, and centered on the household. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Carlo Goldoni
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547191117

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The Servant of Two Masters (Il Servitore di Due Padroni) by Carlo Goldoni Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Servant of Two Masters (Il Servitore di Due Padroni)" by Carlo Goldoni. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Holland Nimmons McTyeire,C. F. Sturgis,A. T. Holmes (of Hayneville, Ga)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Enslaved persons
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6NMK

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Duties of Masters to Servants by Holland Nimmons McTyeire,C. F. Sturgis,A. T. Holmes (of Hayneville, Ga) Pdf

Author : Cissie Fairchilds
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421432038

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Domestic Enemies by Cissie Fairchilds Pdf

Originally published in 1983. This book cuts across the class boundaries of traditionally separate fields of social history. It investigates the social origins of servants, their incomes, their marriage and family patterns, their career patterns, their possibilities for social mobility, their political activities, and their criminality. But it also investigates the history of the family and domestic life in France in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, for servants were, at least until the rise of the affectionate nuclear family in the middle of the eighteenth century, considered part of the families of those they served. Finally, this book is also an essay on the history of social relationships in the ancien régime, not only those between masters and servants but also the broader relationships between the ruling elite and the lower classes. The introduction gives basic facts about the composition of households during the Old Regime and explores the attitudes and assumptions that underlay the employment of servants. It also shows how both these attitudes and the households themselves changed dramatically in the last decades before the French Revolution. Part 1 is devoted to the servants themselves. One chapter deals with their lives within their employers' households: their work, their living conditions, their socializing and leisure-time activities. A second examines their private lives: their social origins, marriage and family patterns, their moneymaking and their criminality. And a third explores their relationships with and attitudes toward their masters. In part 2, the focus shifts to an examination of master–servant relationships from the masters' point of view. The first chapter deals with master–servant relationships in general by discussing the factors that determined how employers treated their domestics. The second and third chapters explore two special relationships: masters' sexual relationships with their servants and their relationships with the servants who cared for them in childhood. The epilogue traces the impact of the French Revolution on domestic service and sketches some of the changes in the household that were to come in the nineteenth century.

Author : Holland Nimmons McTyeire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Enslaved persons
ISBN : PRNC:32101037454806

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Duties of Christian Masters by Holland Nimmons McTyeire Pdf

Author : Hairong Yan
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015082671721

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New Masters, New Servants by Hairong Yan Pdf

DIVEthnographic study of the migration of rural Chinese women to urban areas to serve as domestic laborers./div

Author : Christopher Frank
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0754668304

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Master and Servant Law by Christopher Frank Pdf

Drawing on historical narratives that are frequently examined in isolation, this book examines the tactics, rhetoric and consequences of a sustained legal and political campaign by English and Welsh trade unions, Chartists, and a few radical solicitors against the penal sanctions of employment law during the mid-nineteenth century. In so doing, the author draws new conclusions about the development of the English legal system, trade unionism and popular politics of the period.

Author : M. Burnett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230380141

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Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture by M. Burnett Pdf

Drawing upon archival material as well as the drama, popular verse and pamphlets, this book reads representations of masters and servants in relation to key Renaissance preoccupations. Apprentices, journeymen, male domestic servants, maidservants and stewards, Burnett argues, were deployed in literary texts to address questions about the exercise of power, social change and the threat of economic upheaval. In this way, writers were instrumental in creating servant 'cultures', and spaces within which forms of political resistance could be realized.

Author : Sandra Lauderdale Graham
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292727577

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House and Street by Sandra Lauderdale Graham Pdf

During the later half of the nineteenth century, a majority of Brazilian women worked, most as domestic servants, either slave or free. House and Street re-creates the working and personal lives of these women, drawing on a wealth of documentation from archival, court, and church records. Lauderdale Graham traces the intricate and ambivalent relations that existed between masters and servants. She shows how for servants the house could be a place of protection—as well as oppression—while the street could be dangerous—but also more autonomous. She integrates her discoveries with larger events taking place in Rio de Janeiro during the period, including the epidemics of the 1850s, the abolition of slavery, the demolition of slums, and major improvements in sanitation during the first decade of the 1900s. House and Street was originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1988. For this paperback edition, Lauderdale Graham has provided a new introduction.