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"A mugger says to a stranger, "Give me your wallet or I will beat you to pulp!" It is a crime. An employer says to a worker: "Adding lung-saving ventilation will reduce my profit. Give me back some of your wages and I will let you keep your lungs!" This is not a crime. Our assumptions about the world condition us to see these situations as legally different from one another. But what if we, the critics of corporate capitalism, instead insisted on taking the spirit of law, rather than its letter, seriously? It would then be possible to describe many of the daily practices of capitalists and their corporations as criminal in nature, even if not always criminal by the letter and formality of law. In Capitalism: A Crime Story, Harry Glasbeek makes the case that if the rules and doctrines of liberal law were not perverted by unarticulated and distorting assumptions about the world, but instead were applied as they should be according to law's own pronouncements and methodology, corporate capitalism would be much harder to defend."--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Foreword -- Table of Contetns -- Introduction -- The Pokomo -- Tribal and Sub-Tribal Groupings -- Demography -- Nomenclature -- Tribal territory -- Neighbours -- Territorial groups -- Demography -- Traditions of origin and historical data -- Language -- Physical Environment -- Main Features of Economy -- Social Organization and Political Structure -- Pattern of settlement -- Local and kinship groupings -- Marriage -- Age groupings and associations -- Local government -- Main Cultural Features -- Appearance: tribal marks -- Beath and inheritance -- Bibliography -- The Nyika -- Tribal and Sub-Tribal Groupings -- Demography -- Nomenclature -- Tribal territory -- Neighbouring tribes -- Territorial and other groups: tribal mixture -- Demographic data -- Traditions of origin and historlcal data -- Language -- Physical Environment -- Climate -- Main Features of Economy -- Hunting and fishing: agriculture and husbandry -- Staple foods -- Trade -- Economic organisation -- Crafts -- Social Organization and Political Structure -- Forms of settlement: house types -- Kin groups -- Marriage -- Age groupings and associations -- Local government -- Legal procedure -- Land tenure -- Inheritance -- Slavery -- Main Cultural Features -- Religious beliefs and cults -- Mourning rites -- Bibliography -- The Teita -- Tribal and Sub-Tribal Groupings -- Demography -- Nomenclature -- Tribal territory -- Neighbouring tribes -- Territorial groups -- Demography -- Traditions of origin and historical data -- Language -- Physical Environment -- Main Features of Economy -- Agriculture: main crops, staple foods: livestock -- Hunting -- Trade -- Migrant labour -- Economic organization -- division of labour -- Crafts -- Social Organization and Political Structure -- Forms of settlement -- house types

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Foreword -- CONTENTS -- Introduction to the Second Edition -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Preface to the First Edition -- Introduction -- The Swahili -- The Arabs -- The Shirazi -- Territorial Grouping and Nomenclature -- Territorial grouping and nomenclature -- Neighbouring tribes and countries -- Demography -- Language -- Physical Environment -- Geography -- Vegetation -- Climate -- The sea -- Archaeology -- Sites in Somaliland -- Sites on the coast of Kenya -- Sites in Tanganyika -- Sites on Pemba Island -- Sites on the Island of Zanzibar -- Sites on Mafia Island -- History -- Introduction -- A survey of Swahili history -- Main Features of Economy -- Hunting -- Mangrove cutting -- Other forest produce -- Fishing -- Agriculture -- crops and implements -- the seasons -- shifting cultivation, crop rotation and yields -- Nutrition -- Land rights -- Livestock -- Trade and commerce -- Shipping -- Land transport -- Economic organization -- Slavery -- Economic relations and indebtedness -- Occupations -- Division of labour -- Arts and crafts -- lime burning -- stonework -- pottery -- wood working -- weaving -- plaiting -- metal work -- shipbuilding -- other crafts -- Social Structure -- villages -- towns -- housing -- household furniture -- Household and family -- Wider kinship units and descent groups -- Kinship terminology -- Marriage -- Divorce -- Illicit unions -- Local groups: town, village, and region -- Associations -- Political Organization and Law -- The polity -- Pate -- Kilwa -- Vumba and the Shirazi stools -- Other state-like structures -- The republic -- Local government -- Law -- Warfare -- Other Cultural Features -- Birth -- Death and burial -- Tombs, graves and graveyards -- Literacy -- Education -- Initiation -- Ornamental art -- Prose and poetry