Labourers

Barbara Grandi

doi:10.22158/ibes.v1n2p151

Abstract

The autor, adopting the comparative labour law perspective, gives an insight into the classic reading by Emily Bronte, telling about the suffered living in the English country side of late 1800.

Highlights

In times of transactions it is important to focus on the selected topic from different disciplinary perspectives; this is one of the reasons why I find of interest to reflect over labour law as a subject matter from the perspective of classic literature, which is an operation that makes possible to transpose the topic toward an imaginative context being significant for present times because of any classics’ capability to give to the human dimention an out of time point of observation
The story telled in Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Bronte, regards the living and the suffered loving of a couple of families, and the suffered love of Catherine Earnshow and Heatcliff, takes place in a country side of Great Britain and it is dated 1783-1802, when the industrial revolution was just beginning to explode, giving weight to trade union of workers, and to competition amongst classes of labourers as well; what is reported in the book is a story of single persons separation, rather far from the matter of classes separation
We find the legal origin of dependent labour amongst cases and statutes regarding personal domestic relation, instead that amongst the rulings over the locatio operarum, as it happened in European continental law; the locatio operarum establishes a contract to work independently from a bilateral personal relationship

Summary

Introduction

In times of transactions it is important to focus on the selected topic from different disciplinary perspectives; this is one of the reasons why I find of interest to reflect over labour law as a subject matter from the perspective of classic literature, which is an operation that makes possible to transpose the topic toward an imaginative context being significant for present times because of any classics’ capability to give to the human dimention an out of time point of observation.

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