Not Canadian, but concerned with 'low law' themes and institutions relevant to my work and that of many of the Canadian legal historians I admire (too many to list here, but each member of my supervisory committee--Eric Tucker, Paul Craven and Doug Hay--falls into this Venn intersection.)
The review is too long to reproduce here, but Jaffe's conclusion is of the one thumb up variety:
When you are thinking of reading a book, that's what you need to know, I think. What isn't there is as important as what is.In conclusion, Frank offers an often useful and sometimes very valuable discussion of Roberts, his trade union litigation, and the summary jurisdiction of magistrates in master and servant case in several northern counties during the 1840s. The detailed recovery of these master and servant cases in the local press is to be much commended. However, broader questions concerning the impact of the law upon industrial relations more generally, the role of ideology, and the manifold differences in the regional and local application of the law still remain for others to answer.
