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Note 18: Given the limited specific attention paid to households in recent colonial Cape scholarship, however, future research on families, domestic production, and master-servant relationships will undoubtedly challenge, modify, or confirm my assessments made based on evidence from the Cedarberg. back
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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In other words, I will break down the de facto master-servant relationship which exists between the central government and local authorities and replace it with an equal relationship based on shared responsibilities.
'My Political Philosophy' Yukio Hatoyama 2009
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Or is your only contact with them is in the master-servant relationship?
Sound Politics: "Peak Oil" Despair Versus Energy Innovation 2007
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In 1895, this master-servant role came to an abrupt end, as the Japanese defeated Chinese forces on the Peninsula and abroad.
Eric C. Anderson: Understanding China's Approach to North Korea 2009
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Or is your only contact with them is in the master-servant relationship?
Sound Politics: "Peak Oil" Despair Versus Energy Innovation 2007
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However, contrary to the claims of the legal origin hypothesis, a liberal model of contract was more influential in the civilian systems of the continent than in the English common law, where the consequences of early industrialization included the lingering influence of master-servant legislation and the weak institutionalization of the juridical form of the contract of employment.
Deakin on Legal Origin, Jurdical Form and Industrialisation in Historical Perspective Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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Has there ever been a master-servant relationship like this one?
THE WHITE TIGER Aravind Adiga 2008
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However, contrary to the claims of the legal origin hypothesis, a liberal model of contract was more influential in the civilian systems of the continent than in the English common law, where the consequences of early industrialization included the lingering influence of master-servant legislation and the weak institutionalization of the juridical form of the contract of employment.
Archive 2008-11-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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While we may be personally opposed to chattel slavery, how much of our day-to-day behavior with respect to service industry workers embodies the expectations of a master-servant relationship?
Archive 2008-06-29 papabear 2008
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"There's the master-servant relationship, even if it's not as direct as it once was," Nagenda said.
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