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

“The issues of workplace appropriation, private policing, and the use of the law as an instrument of social control have received a considerable amount of attention in the last few decades, and in this volume Barry Godfrey and David J. Cox provide a useful summary of several ongoing debates and make useful contributions to the growing body of literature on these subjects … Godfrey and Cox make effective use of the relevant secondary literature and have been exhaustive in their examination.” –Michael Weaver, University of Texas-Pan American, The Historian

“Policing the Factory represents a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate about nineteenth-century industrialization. It is based on an excellent array of sources, including working-class autobiographies, legal records, newspaper accounts, and employer records; it includes an extremely helpful glossary of the technical terms of the nineteenth-century worsted workplace.” -Jamie L. Bronstein, USA, Victorian Studies Journal