Harry Glasbeek

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Chapter 1

Chapter 1

From status to contract: Toward new legal forms of worker subjugation

From: Law at Work

This chapter explores the evolution of labour legislation, highlighting the role these laws played in limiting workers’ rights and reinforcing class hierarchies. It also analyzes collective … 18 $1.80 Add
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Chapter 10

Chapter 10

Executives: In a class of their own?

From: Law at Work

This chapter explores the central role of executives and managers in corporate operations, arguing that their wealth and power have grown as they exercise influence beyond their individual … 26 $2.60 Add
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Chapter 11

Chapter 11

A legal right to maim and kill workers

From: Law at Work

This chapter examines how the structures and ideology supported by law to maintain and perpetuate capitalism ensure the dominance of one class over another. It also discusses how, when it comes … 33 $3.30 Add
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Chapter 12

Chapter 12

The dignity of work versus the degradation of work under capitalism

From: Law at Work

This chapter examines how the basic structure of capitalism makes work unrewarding, and how legal systems legitimize and reinforce these conditions. It argues that the law not only sustains … 29 $2.90 Add
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Chapter 13

Chapter 13

Selected Notes

From: Law at Work

This page lists selected notes used throghout the book. 1 $0.10 Add
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Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Capital-labour struggles better described as wars

From: Law at Work

This chapter examines how labour unions and legal reforms from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries challenged employer dominance, and how the Great Depression prompted worker-focused … 16 $1.60 Add
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Chapter 3

Chapter 3

World War II: Promises made, fulfilled, and then diluted

From: Law at Work

This chapter looks at how labour policies changed during and after World War II, where many of the advances made by the working class were challenged in the 1930s. It also covers the many worker … 28 $2.80 Add
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Chapter 4

Chapter 4

The common law’s anti-collectivism and the impoverished right to strike

From: Law at Work

This chapter examines how competitive capitalism undermined worker solidarity by pressuring individuals to compete for jobs and accept employer conditions, which widened the divide between … 39 $3.90 Add
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Chapter 5

Chapter 5

How judges are programmed to define and interpret contracts of employment

From: Law at Work

This chapter explains how the legal system and the rules and decisions which show the law lives comfortable with differential treatment, prioritizes property rights and employer interests often … 14 $1.40 Add
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Chapter 6

Chapter 6

How employers avoid the employment contract’s strictures and profit from its principles and ideology

From: Law at Work

The story shared in this chapter highlights the measures capitalists will take to escape legal regulations that try to restrict their profit-maximization drive. It also describes how capitalists … 25 $2.50 Add
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Chapter 7

Chapter 7

Workers’ need to expand the scope of contracts of employment

From: Law at Work

This chapter discusses the ways in which capitalists seek for ways to maximize profits, including finding ways to pass the costs of making profits on to others and pressuring governments to … 27 $2.70 Add
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Chapter 8

Chapter 8

Helping employers out: A private sphere of criminal justice

From: Law at Work

This chapter discusses how the contract of employment is a contract of submission. It highlights the ways the law also ensures that it is a contract of subordination, giving ownership of the … 32 $3.20 Add
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Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Helping employers out: A private sphere of criminal justice

From: Law at Work

This chapter examines how governments determined which businesses are essential to the public welfare during the COVID-19 pandemic. It argues that labeling employees essential workers functions … 21 $2.10 Add
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Introduction

Introduction

From: Law at Work

Glasbeek introduces the central ideas explored throughout the book, highlighting how the law is structured to maintain systems of oppression under capitalism. 9 $0.90 Add
Law at Work

Law at Work

The Coercion and Co-option of the Working Class

This book uncovers how the legal system, through its structures and mechanisms, legitimizes and reinforces the exploitation of workers. Using historic and contemporary examples, Glasbeek … 354 View