The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America
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Köp båda 2 för 709 krRuth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray have gathered together twelve fine essays in this volume that provides welcome insight into the varied apprenticeship practices on display in North America from the late seventeenth century through the mid nineteenth. Children Bound to Labor demonstrates that apprenticeship was a pervasive and remarkably flexible institution that could be adapted to fit divergent political and economic contexts in early America. * Georgia Historical Quarterly * This excellent collection brings together a dozen essays that explore the history and significance of pauper apprenticeship (also known as orphan apprenticeship or binding out). Most of the essays are based on detailed research in the records and circumstances of particular communities; they focus on the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and range across North America, mainly in the British colonies but with interesting essays on New Netherland and Montreal as well. Taken together, these essays do much to advance our knowledge of the institution, and they make a convincing cases for its importance to our understanding of early American culture and development, including the central issues of labor, poverty, ideas about child rearing, society, and the state, and the effects of economic and social changes. -- Helena M. Wall * Journal of Southern History *
Ruth Herndon is Associate Professor of History at Bowling Green State University. She is the author of Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England. John Murray is Professor of Economics at University of Toledo. He is the author of Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds.