From Privileges to Rights : Work and Politics in Colonial New York City.
From Privileges to Rights connects the changing fortunes of tradesmen in early New York to the emergence of a conception of subjective rights that accompanied the transition to a republican and liberal order in eighteenth-century America.Tradesmen in New Amsterdam occupied a distinct social position...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.,
2011.
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| Series: | Early American studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1 "Earning a beaver": Tradesmen in New Amsterdam; 2 "Like a child in their debt and consequently their slave": The Transition to English Rule, 1664-1691; 3 "Diverse necessaries and conveniences work found and provided": Trading in a Craft Economy, 1691-1730; 4 "The only obstruction at this present is our want of people": The Labor Problem, 1691-1730; 5 "So much as he should reasonably deserve to have": Tradesmen and the English Common Law; 6 "C'mon brave boys let us be brave for liberty and law": Artisans and Politics, 1730-1763.
- 7 ConclusionNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; Acknowledgments.