Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-250) and index.
Contents
The industrial revolution and the law -- Economic needs as legal rights -- Equality in the family -- Children and the law -- Crime without punishment -- A call to "struggling people" -- The withering away of law -- Panic in the palace -- Enter the working class -- Social welfare rights -- The state and the economy -- Equality comes to the family -- Child-bearing and rights of children -- Racial equality -- Crime and punishment -- Equality of nations -- The end of colonies -- The criminality of war -- Protecting sovereignty -- Military intervention -- Triumph of capitalist law? -- The moorings of western law -- The impact of change.
Summary
This book looks at the Soviet style of law that was adopted slowly in the West during the twentieth century.
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