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War, law, and labour : the munitions acts, state regulation, and the unions 1915-1921
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ISBN: 0198255381 Year: 1987 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon


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Kampf um die Arbeitskraft : Abwerbung von Handwerksgesellen im Zeitalter der Protoindustrialisierung.
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ISBN: 3465025474 9783465025474 Year: 1993 Volume: 58 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Klostermann

An economic history of the English poor law, 1750-1850
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ISBN: 9780521364799 9780521031868 0521031869 0521364795 9780511528590 0511528590 Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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During the last third of the eighteenth century, most parishes in rural southern England adopted policies providing poor relief outside workhouses to unemployed and underemployed able-bodied labourers. The debate over the economic effects of 'outdoor' relief payments to able-bodied workers has continued for over 200 years. This book examines the economic role of the Poor Law in the rural south of England. It presents a model of the agricultural labour market that provides explanations for the widespread adoption of outdoor relief policies, the persistence of such policies until the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act in 1834, and the sharp regional differences in the administration of relief. The book challenges many commonly held beliefs about the Poor Law and concludes that the adoption of outdoor relief for able-bodied paupers was a rational response by politically dominant farmers to changes in the rural economic environment.

Combination and conspiracy : a legal history of trade unionism, 1721-1906
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ISBN: 0198252994 Year: 1991 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon

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