Chapter 1

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

From: Law at Work

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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 worker responses as efforts to establish labour rights.

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Contributors

Harry Glasbeek

Harry Glasbeek is professor emeritus and Senior Scholar of Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. He has taught in both Australia and Canada and has written 140 articles and 12 books, including Between the Lines titles Wealth by Stealth: Corporate Crime, Corporate Law, and the Perversion of Democracy, Class Privilege: How Law Shelters Shareholders and Coddles Capitalism, and Capitalism: A Crime Story.