Zoe Adams, "The Legal Concept of Work" (Oxford UP, 2022)
New Books in Economics
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The History of Labour Law
Having the knowledge is an important first step as this historical investigation uncovers and in a similar sort of vein sorry go ahead. I'd like to ask you about another one of these threads a thing that happened historically but still very much impacts us today maybe in ways we don't realise. The factory act was really the first capitalistic labour regulation in the sense that they were oriented towards protecting workers rather than just disciplining them. And it's no surprise that where the conflicts and struggles over working time emerged is where the focus was when it came to coining and developing a conception of work.
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