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Corporations Without Labor: The Politics Of Progressive Corporate Law, Dalia Tsuk Mitchell
Corporations Without Labor: The Politics Of Progressive Corporate Law, Dalia Tsuk Mitchell
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This article examines how, in the course of the twentieth century, legal scholars and political theorists helped remove the interests of workers (as differentiated from shareholders, officers, and directors) from the core concerns of corporate law and theory. Specifically, the article demonstrates how scholars' conversations about corporate entities and corporate power were influenced by a shared cultural and intellectual objection to Marxist class analysis with its focus on the proletariat. It further explores how the purging of the working class from the scholarly imagination paved a way, first, for the rise of the new classes of managers and owners and …