Harry Glasbeek

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Chapter 1 From status to contract: Toward new legal forms of worker subjugation From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	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 …	Harry Glasbeek	18	2024	$1.80 Add
From Chapter 10 Executives: In a class of their own? From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	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 …	Harry Glasbeek	26	2024	$2.60 Add
From Chapter 11 A legal right to maim and kill workers From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	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 …	Harry Glasbeek	33	2024	$3.30 Add
From Chapter 12 The dignity of work versus the degradation of work under capitalism From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	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 …	Harry Glasbeek	29	2024	$2.90 Add
From Chapter 13 Selected Notes From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	This page lists selected notes used throghout the book.	Harry Glasbeek	1	2024	$0.10 Add
From Chapter 2 Capital-labour struggles better described as wars From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	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 …	Harry Glasbeek	16	2024	$1.60 Add
From Chapter 3 World War II: Promises made, fulfilled, and then diluted From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	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 …	Harry Glasbeek	28	2024	$2.80 Add
From Chapter 4 The common law’s anti-collectivism and the impoverished right to strike From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	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 …	Harry Glasbeek	39	2024	$3.90 Add
From Chapter 5 How judges are programmed to define and interpret contracts of employment From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	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 …	Harry Glasbeek	14	2024	$1.40 Add
From Chapter 6 How employers avoid the employment contract’s strictures and profit from its principles and ideology From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	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 …	Harry Glasbeek	25	2024	$2.50 Add
From Chapter 7 Workers’ need to expand the scope of contracts of employment From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	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 …	Harry Glasbeek	27	2024	$2.70 Add
From Chapter 8 Helping employers out: A private sphere of criminal justice From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	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 …	Harry Glasbeek	32	2024	$3.20 Add
From Chapter 9 Helping employers out: A private sphere of criminal justice From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	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 …	Harry Glasbeek	21	2024	$2.10 Add
From Introduction From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	Glasbeek introduces the central ideas explored throughout the book, highlighting how the law is structured to maintain systems of oppression under capitalism.	Harry Glasbeek	9	2024	$0.90 Add
Law at Work The Coercion and Co-option of the Working Class Between The Lines	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 …	Harry Glasbeek	354	2024	View