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1 online resource (255 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; PART ONE The Civil Contract Perspective; 1 A Sociological Conception of Law; The Idea of Contract; Law as Civil Contract; Elements of the Civil Contract; Civil Contract and Society; 2 Law and Social Relationships; Persons and Nonpersons; Corporations as Persons; Human Persons; InterPersonal Relationships; 3 The Civil Domain and Nonpersons; Nonpersons in Modem Society; A Caveat; Law: Conflict or Consensus; 4 The Civil Domain in Society; Durkheim's View of Legal Evolution Rehabilitated |
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The Civil Domain: The Modern ContrastChanges in the Size of the Civil Domain; 5 Social and Legal Expectations; Durkheim's Legacy: Law and Solidarity; The Civil Contract and Legal Expectations; Laws, Social Norms, and Morals; The ""Operationalization"" Process; Looking Ahead: The Role of Ideas in Law and Society; 6 The Constitutive Effects of Law; How Law Creates a World; The Dialectic of Norms; The Importance of Legitimating Formulas; Law in the Sociology of Knowledge; PART TWO Law in Society; 7 The Civil Contract and Family Life in the United States; English Roots |
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The Diversity of Common LawThe Colonial Experience; The Republican Family; Economic Change; The Emergence of American Family Law; Modern Family Law; Family and Law in the Twenty-First Century; 8 The Civil Contract and Working Life in the United States; The Impact of Industrialization on Work; Economic Upheaval and Legal Shenanigans; What Did Labor Want?; The Impact of Early Regulation; A New Century, A New Era in the Workplace; More Attempts to Regulate; Labor Relations: From the Communal to the Civil Domain; Labor in the Post-Wagner Act Era; The Rise of Employment Law; Employment at Will |
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Protection in the Workplace: Physical Harm and BeyondThe Impact of Law on the Workplace in the Late Twentieth Century; 9 Final Words; Bibliography; Cases Cited; A Brief Guide to Case Citations; About the Book and Author; Index; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sociological jurisprudence.
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Sociological jurisprudence
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Rechtssociologie.
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Sociale normen.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429700217 |
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0429700210 |
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9780429720222 |
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042972022X |
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