Policing the Factory: Theft, Private Policing and the Law in Modern England

by Barry S. Godfrey and David J. Cox

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472581709
• ISBN13: 9781472581709
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"