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3. For an assessment of previous interpretations, see J. Styles, ‘Embezzlement, industry and the law in England, 1500–1800’, in M. Berg, P. Hudson and M. Sonenscher eds,Manufacture in Town and Country before the Factory(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 188–205. For more recent works, see C. Becker, ‘Property in the workplace: labor, capital, and crime in the eighteenth-century British woollen and worsted industry’,Virginia Law Review,lxix(1983), pp. 1487–1515; A. J. Randall, ‘Peculiar perquisites and pernicious practices: embezzlement in the West of England woollen industry, c. 1750–1840’,International Review of Social History,xxxv(1990), pp. 193–219; P. Linebaugh,The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century(London: Allen Lane, 1991), esp. ch. 7; L. Hilaire-Perez, ‘Le vol des déchets dans l’industrie en France et en Angleterre au xviii siècle. Jalons pour une histoire comparée de l’embezzlement’, in B. Garnot ed.La Petite Délinquance du Moyen Âge à l’Époque Contemporaine(Dijon: EUD, 1998), pp. 281–308; D. W. Allen,The Institutional Revolution: Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), ch. 8; B. Godfrey and D. J. Cox,Policing the Factory: Theft, Private Policing and the Law in Modern England(London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), esp. chs 1 and 2.
4. B. Godfrey, ‘The impact of the factory on workplace appropriation in mid to late nineteenth-century Yorkshire’,British Journal of Criminology, xxxix (1999), pp. 56–71; Styles, ‘Embezzlement, industry and the law’.
5. Styles, ‘Embezzlement, industry and the law’, pp. 200–05.