SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Habitual Offender, Structural Marxism, Symbolic Power
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Does regulating the number of hours in the work day mean that the state is looking out for it"s citizens. Who are the lawyers: go to a small claims court what are the patterns. Marx viewed society as primarily an uneasy relationship between two groups with incompatible economic interests: Black death, selling serfs who moved to the cities, the serfs that remained were worse off. The vagrancy laws were designed to alleviate a condition defined by the lawmakers as undesirable . Move to criminalization of vagrancy: economy changed from industrialization to commercialization. Conclusion: the importance of vested interest groups in the emergence and/or alternation of laws. How can we account for laws that limit property rights: any worker safety law is inducing limitations because companies cannot exploit their workers. Relay system lack of funds to enforce the law. Other tactics to lengthen the working day (shaving off minutes)
