TY - BOOK AU - Middleton,Simon TI - From Privileges to Rights: Work and Politics in Colonial New York City T2 - Early American Studies SN - 9780812207224 AV - HD2346.U52 -- N545 2006eb U1 - 331.7/94/0974109033 PY - 2006/// CY - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3441847 ER -