Belated feudalism : labor, the law, and liberal development in the United States / Karen Orren.
1991
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Author
Title
Belated feudalism : labor, the law, and liberal development in the United States / Karen Orren.
Published
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Call Number
KF894 .O77 1991
ISBN
0521410398 (hardcover)
052142254X (pbk.)
052142254X (pbk.)
Description
x, 238 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)23355385
Note
Errata slip inserted
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Table of Contents
Preface
1
Introduction: liberalism and labor in developmental perspective
1
The absence-of-feudalism argument
5
Liberalism, capitalism and wage labor
9
Out of the circle of liberalism
15
The primacy of labor
19
The labor tradition in liberalism
24
2
The transition to liberalism and the remnant of American labor
29
Feudal dismantling and the state
30
From judicial to legislative governance
33
Liberalism: the art of demolition
40
Legislative sovereignty and its limits
46
The English imprint on American law
55
The American codification movement
62
3
Belated feudalism: the order of the workplace in late- nineteenth-century America
68
The order of labor
71
The judicial governance of master and servant
79
Relative liberty
91
The province of work
102
The province and the republic
111
4
The old order and collective action
118
The template of enticement
122
Contract breaking
128
The peaceable boycott
135
"Outside of the province of working men"
145
"A new technical channel"
154
5
Masters, servants, and the new American state
160
Railroad rates and labor costs
164
The economy of speed
173
"A clear line"
182
Regulation by anachronism
189
A new American state
198
"Actual conditions and practicable measures"
204
6
Conclusion: the state of liberalism
209
Full legislative sovereignty
211
The diffusion of legislative forms
215
Legislative polity and administrative state
218
Labor politics pure and simple
221
Myths old and new
227
Index
231