SOSC 3380 Lecture 2: Slavery, Master and Servants
30 Nov 2016
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Slavery, masters and servants: case study: south african labour law, law and history, modern day slavery. Part of the origins of modern employment law. Workers were unable to exercise the rights they were working in because masters held control. Other origins of modern employment law: medieval social and legal relations, lords, manors, tenure, tenant, villein, villeinage. Labour market: increased demand, mobility, wage inflation, destabilization. Law and policy: criminalize unemployment, wage-fixing, emergence of central state, local administration by jp restricting worker mobility (connection between old and modern day slavery) ex. non compete. Case study: south african labour, law and history. Historical development: pre 1979, apartheid - segregation, government set into place a series of laws and regulations based on segregation. (separating blacks and whites, mines were developing, labour was being brought in, exploitation of labour, industrialization (diamond mines) White labour being replaced by cheaper black labour.
