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The Labour Injunction and Peonage: How changes in labour laws increased inequality during the Gilded Age

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  • Mark Stelzner

    (Connecticut College)

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"In this paper, I seek to fill a gap in the literature by analyzing how central changes in labor laws shaped increasing income inequality during the Gild Age and Progressive and New Eras. For the North, I look at the increasing activation of courts, to the detriment of many state and local legislatures, in creating and expanding the use of the labor injunction. For the South, I look at how the states, supported by the courts, created a system of peonage that directly affect large portions of southern labor and lasted well into the twentieth century. "

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  • Mark Stelzner, 2017. "The Labour Injunction and Peonage: How changes in labour laws increased inequality during the Gilded Age," Working Papers 17005, Economic History Society.
    • Handle: RePEc:ehs:wpaper:17005
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