Recruiting Contract Laborers for the Amoskeag Mills1

Daniel Creamer

The Journal of Economic History, 1941, vol. 1, issue 1, 42-56

Abstract: Much has been written concerning the fraudulent and coercive practices that frequently attended the importation of contract laborers into the United States during the latter half of the nineteenth century. In an effort to eliminate these abuses, a great deal of publicity was given to these unsavory practices. In contrast, there is a dearth of documentary evidence on cases in which a contract arrangement was mutually advantageous to both the contract laborer and the employer. Yet there must have been many such instances.

Date: 1941
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