Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “robert j steinfeld”
Skip side bar filters

  • 'To Save the People from Themselves'

    The Emergence of American Judicial Review and the Transformation of Constitutions

    by Robert J. Steinfeld ...
    Series series Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
    In this expansive history, Robert J. Steinfeld offers a thorough re-interpretation of the origins of American judicial review and the central role it quickly came to play in the American constitutional system. Beginning with Privy Council review of American colonial legislation, the book goes on to provide detailed descriptions of the character of the first American constitutions, showing that ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • The Invention of Free Labor

    The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870

    by Robert J. Steinfeld ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Examining the emergence of the modern conception of free labor — labor that could not be legally compelled, even though voluntarily agreed upon — Steinfeld explains how English law dominated the early American colonies, making violation of al labor agreements punishable by imprisonment. By the eighteenth century, traditional legal restrictions no longer applied to many kinds of colonial workers, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • That Dark and Bloody River

    Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley

    by Allan W. Eckert ...
    An award-winning author chronicles the settling of the Ohio River Valley, home to the defiant Shawnee Indians, who vow to defend their land against the seemingly unstoppable.They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless, adventurous, enterprising, relentless, seeking a foothold on the future. European immigrants and American colonists, settlers and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Setting Up and Running Effective Staff Appraisals, 7th Edition

    and Feedback Review Meetings

    by Dr. Nigel Hunt ...
    Regular staff reviews will help an organisation to be effective and efficient (and hence more profitable), and will help the individual employee gain more job satisfaction. A satisfied employee is going to work better; a more profitable company means a happier boss. It's that simple. This book is a thorough, comprehensive guide for anyone involved in staff reviews. It covers: *Conducting ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Workforce Planning and Scheduling. Automated Staff Shifts Management and Rostering

    by Isabella Longobardi ...
    Scheduling staff shifts is a difficult task. In organizations that work on Sundays, and/or on public holidays, and/or during night hours, scheduling shifts accurately and efficiently is a time consuming job, and it also exposes employers to the risk of excessive overtime costs and poor distribution of workload among employees.In order to be efficient, anyone who has the task of planning the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jamestown Adventure, The

    Accounts of the Virginia Colony, 1605-1614

    Edited by Ed Southern ...
    In December 1606, three ships carrying 144 passengers and crew sailed from London bound for a land that had already claimed more than its share of English lives. In May of the following year, little more than 100 men would disembark to settle on a small peninsula in the James River. Eight months later, only 38 men were still alive in the fort they had named Jamestown. Jamestown is well known as ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Slavery

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Heather Andrea Williams ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Europeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a captive African by a white land-owner in the American colonies; that, however, is the image of slavery most prevalent in the minds of Americans today. This Very Short Introduction begins with the Portuguese capture of Africans in the 1400s and traces the development of American slavery until its ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Democratic Republicans of New York

    The Origins, 1763-1797

    by Alfred F. Young ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Through an intensive study of party origins in the state of New York, this volume reexamines and reevaluates the whole of the Democratic Republican movement. It will compel changes in present concepts of anti-Federalist and Republican connections with banking, mercantile, land-speculation, and manufacturing interests.Originally published in 1967.A UNC Press Enduring Edition — UNC Press Enduring ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • In Search of First Contact

    The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery

    by Annette Kolodny ...
    In Search of First Contact is a monumental achievement by the influential literary critic Annette Kolodny. In this book, she offers a radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic tales, known as the Vinland sagas. She contends that they are the first known European narratives about contact with North America. After carefully explaining the evidence for that conclusion, Kolodny examines ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1

    Journalist, 176-173

    by J. A. Leo Lemay ...
    Named "one of the best books of 2006" by The New York SunDescribed by Carl Van Doren as "a harmonious human multitude," Benjamin Franklin was the most famous American of his time, of perhaps any time. His life and careers were so varied and successful that he remains, even today, the epitome of the self-made man. Born into a humble tradesman's family, this adaptable genius rose to become an ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Labour Constitution

    The Enduring Idea of Labour Law

    by Ruth Dukes ...
    Series series Oxford Labour Law
    By exploring different approaches to the study of labour law, this book re-evaluates how it is conceived, analysed, and criticized in current legislation and policy. In particular, it assesses whether so-called 'old ways' of thinking about the subject, such as the idea of the labour constitution, developed by Hugo Sinzheimer in the early years of the Weimar Republic, and the principle of ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Getting Fired: Prevent or Survive One of Life's Top Stressors

    by Katherine A. Young ...
    "Getting Fired: Prevent or Survive One of Life's Top Stressors" is written by a plaintiff's employment attorney. Tennessee attorney Katherine A. Young has met with or spoken to thousands of employees who have just been fired over the past twenty years. Her years of listening allow her to summarize and list the signs of danger to share with employees who are in fear of losing a job. The book ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus