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Chapter 9

Helping employers out: A private sphere of criminal justice

From: Law at Work

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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 as a form of coersion.

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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.