LS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Well-Founded Relation, Factory Acts
30 Jan 2015
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Early challenges to legal positivism: marx tutorial. Dead letter ; labour laws up to 1833 loopholes and selective enforcement: i. e. relay system etc. Why do people work in unsafe conditions: debt, threats. "free labouring poor," that artificial product of modern society . The law-makers were so far from wishing to trench on the freedom of capital to exploit adult labour-power, or, as they called it, "the freedom of labour" . English jurisprudence, ever the faithful servant of capital (footnote 148: supports criticism, leads to a more complex view, law has release-valves, shifting allegiances, law is flexible; law as moderator, law often serves contradictory aims. New skill for theory analysis: criticism vs.
