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Barry Godfrey

Policing the Factory

Theft, Private Policing and the Law in Modern England

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Policing the Factory describes the operation of the Bank of England police, the Post Office police, and various other private policing agencies, employed to track down and prosecute workplace offenders. The authors focus in particular on the Worsted Committee and their Inspectors, who, between 1777 and 1968, prosecuted thousands of workers in the north of England for taking home workplace scraps, or wasting their employer's time. Most of the workers prosecuted spent a month in prison upon conviction, and many more were dismissed from employment without any formal legal action taking place. This book explores how, and under what legislative b… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Cox, David J.
  • ISBN: 978-1-4725-8170-9
  • EAN: 9781472581709
  • Produktnummer: 16117424
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 218 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm 318 g
  • Gewicht: 318

Über den Autor


Barry Godfrey is Professor of Social Justice at the University of Liverpool, UK.David J. Cox is Research Fellow at Keele University, UK.

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