Book:
Legal Workers Inquiry
May 12, 2025
Edited by Tanzil Chowdhury and Jamie Woodcock
Published in 2025, London: Notes from Below.
Print 978-1-73-920908-7
Available to buy in print.
This collection of essays, curated by Notes from Below and the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context at Queen Mary University of London, is a workers’ inquiry into the legal sector in Britain. We have tried to bring together as many different types of workers in the legal sector, not just solicitors and barristers, but also facilities managers, caseworkers and paralegals, working in a range of different settings, including law firms, charities, chambers, as well as university legal clinics and law centres.
The legal sector often plays a role in the composition of other workers. Legal workers may intervene in the provision of housing or other resources, or may mediate between workers and the state in a range of different ways. The importance of understanding class composition is therefore twofold in this collection: what is the class composition of the workers in the legal sector, as well as the role of the legal sector in class composition of other forms of work, the economy, and other parts of society.
Introduction to the Legal Workers’ Inquiry
by
Jamie Woodcock,
Tanzil Chowdhury
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May 12, 2025
The Capitalistic Structures of the Legal Workplace
by
Roger Bravo
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May 12, 2025
The Students Move on but the Clients Come Back
by
Gordon Dalziel,
Robert Jones
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May 12, 2025
A Day in the Life of a High Street Legal Aid Lawyer
by
Oliver Conway
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May 12, 2025
At the Frontlines of Immigration Law
by
Isobel Bowler,
Maxwell Goddard
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May 12, 2025
The Rallying Call of a Deserter
by
Stan French
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May 12, 2025
Defending Legal Aid
by
John Nicholson
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Above the Fray
by
Kate Bradley
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Gifts, Open Doors and Precarity
by
Will Staveley
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May 12, 2025
