This is the first book of a series on which D.N.Pritt is now engaged, dealing with the English law.
Mr Pritt, after sixty years studying the law and applying it, during the course of which he won world-wide fame as an advocate, now sets down his conclusions on English law "as seen through the eyes of a Marxist Socialist."
"Many of us have been and still are too ready to study and apply the law as it stands," he writes, "without considering how it has come to be what it is, what forces have shaped and from time to time re-shaped it, and what use is made of it, in the service of their own particular interests by the various elements which hold power in the modern state."
The first book—starting off the series in medias res—deals with the law relating to Employers and Workmen. It contains a masterly analysis of the development of law applying to trade unions, both for their benefit and to their detriment, and of the problems of trade union law, including the legal enforceability of contracts, which agitate public life today.
The second book, on the Apparatus of the Law—the sources of the law, our judges, lawyers and jurors, and the actual operation of the law and its procedure—is already printing as the first is published.
The series will be completed, probably, in four books, the final two dealing with: the Law of Property—Personal Relations —Contract and Tort—the law in its Political aspects—and law as it is applied (or mainly, used to be applied) in Colonial territories. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Employers, Workers and Trade Unions (D. N. Pritt)