Conjugal Bonds and Wage Labor: Rights of Contract in the Age of Emancipation.

Stanley, Amy Dru

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Publication Date: 1988

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Conjugal Bonds and Wage Labor: Rights of Contract in the Age of Emancipation.

Stanley, Amy Dru

Journal of American History, v75 n2 p471-500 Sep 1988

Explores how the post-bellum U.S. code of contract denied married women the right to own their labor and their wages. Maps the legal symmetry between slavery and marriage, contradicting contemporary ideologies that placed the right to work for wages as a cardinal freedom. Discusses "earnings" laws passed by state legislatures that allowed women to control their wages. (GEA)

Descriptors: Contracts, Employed Women, Females, Feminism, Higher Education, History Instruction, Labor, Law Related Education, Secondary Education, Slavery, Social Change, Social History, Spouses, State Legislation, United States History, Wages, Womens Studies

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Language: English

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