From Privileges to Rights : Work and Politics in Colonial New York City.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (317 pages)
- Early American Studies .
- Early American Studies .
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 Conclusion -- Notes -- 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.
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.