The legal relationship between employees and employers in Sung dynasty

• Main Authors: Bin-Hang Tseng, 曾斌涵
• Other Authors: Farn-Guang Hwang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54609094981185003879

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 歷史學系碩士班 === 100 === The core of problem is the legal relationship between employees and employers in Sung dynasty. It’s a complex question, and difficult to clearly expressing. So this article explores two perspectives: “punishment” and “right”. In punishment, employees are better than slaves. They didn’t regard as host’s property. Host can’t arbitrary kill their employees. If they did, they would suffer severe sanctions. In right, employees may have their property. If someone tries to trespass it, they could claim the right of their fortune by legal means. In other hands, the status didn’t affect their right. The other question is female employees have some rights for their own children’s property. In this question, we can know the judge valued the Kinship better than the status. We can know that the legal relationship between employees and employers in Sung dynasty was different from Tang dynasty. Employees were not at an absolute disadvantage in punishment, legal protection their right to life. “Status” didn’t affect the right to own property.