Table of Contents

Nicos Poulantzas 1. Law, State and Society 2. How the Law Rules: Variations on Some Themes in Karl Marx 3. The Development of Capitalism and the Formalisation of Contract Law 4. Theory and Practice in Law and History: A Prologue to the Study of the Relationship between Law and Economy from a Socio-Historical Perspective 5. Sociology in Jurisprudence: The Problem of ‘Law’ as Object of Knowledge 6. State, Redundancy and the Law 7. The Law and the Use of Troops in Industrial Disputes 8. Stereotyping: Familism in the Law 9. ‘All Police is Conning Bastards’ – Policing and the Problem of Consent Notes on Contributors Index

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Bob Fryer, Alan J. Hunt, Doreen McBarnet, Bert Moorhouse