Introduction / Douglas Hay and Paul Craven
England, 1562-1875: the law and its uses / Douglas Hay
Early British America, 1585-1830: freedom bound / Christopher Tomlins
Law and labor in eighteenth-century Newfoundland / Jerry Bannister
Canada, 1670-1935: symbolic and instrumental enforcement in Loyalist North America / Paul Craven
Australia, 1788-1902: a workingman's paradise? / Michael Quinlan
The Colonial Office, 1820-1955: constantly the subject of small struggles / M.K. Banton
The British Caribbean, 1823-1838: the transition from slave to free legal status / Mary Turner
Urban British Guiana, 1838-1924: wharf rats, centipedes, and pork knockers / Juanita de Barros
South Africa, 1841-1924: race, contract, and coercion / Martin Chanock
Hong Kong, 1841-1870: all the servants in prison and nobody to take care of the house / Christopher Munn
Britain: the defeat of the 1844 master and servants bill / Christopher Frank
India, 1858-1930: the illusion of free labor / Michael Anderson
Assam and the West Indies, 1860-1920: immobilizing plantation labor / Prabhu P. Mohapatra
West Africa, 1874-1948: employment legislation in a nonsettler peasant economy / Richard Rathbone
Kenya, 1895-1939: registration and rough justice / David M. Anderson.