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The Opinion Volume 41 Issue 2 – November 25, 2002, The Opinion Nov 2002

The Opinion Volume 41 Issue 2 – November 25, 2002, The Opinion

The Opinion Newspaper (all issues)

The Opinion newspaper issue dated November 25, 2002


The Opinion Volume 41 Issue 1 – October 23, 2002, The Opinion Oct 2002

The Opinion Volume 41 Issue 1 – October 23, 2002, The Opinion

The Opinion Newspaper (all issues)

The Opinion newspaper issue dated October 23, 2002


Freedom Of Contract And Freedom Of Person: A Brief History Of “Involuntary Servitude” In American Fundamental Law, Robert J. Steinfeld Apr 2002

Freedom Of Contract And Freedom Of Person: A Brief History Of “Involuntary Servitude” In American Fundamental Law, Robert J. Steinfeld

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Published as Chapter 14 in Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750–1850, Jürgen Heideking, James A. Henretta & Peter Becker, eds.

Liberal ideas are normally taken to have played an important role in the development of free markets, and of free labor based on contract in those markets. A closer look at labor regimes in the nineteenth century, however, reveals that liberal commitments to freedom did not straightforwardly produce what we today would think of as free labor. Just as often they produced a form of coerced contractual labor. And this was quite simply because liberal commitments …


The Opinion Volume 54 Issue 4 – February 1, 2002, The Opinion Feb 2002

The Opinion Volume 54 Issue 4 – February 1, 2002, The Opinion

The Opinion Newspaper (all issues)

The Opinion newspaper issue from 2002. Original publishing date unknown.


The Opinion Volume 54 Issue 3 – January 1, 2002, The Opinion Jan 2002

The Opinion Volume 54 Issue 3 – January 1, 2002, The Opinion

The Opinion Newspaper (all issues)

The Opinion newspaper issue from 2002. Original publishing date unknown.