Description: Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870
Brief description: Robert J. Steinfeld is professor emeritus of law at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law.
Review Quotes:
"As at once a work of synthetic legal history and a thought-provoking series of arguments about the nature of legal change, it is a book that deserves to be read carefully by all early-modern social and legal historians."--American Journal of Legal History