Constructing the Family

Luke Taylor is an assistant professor in the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University.

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Chapter 1: Ideology and Population Management 
A. Ideology
B. Population Management

Chapter 2: The Invention of Family Law in English Scholarly Legal Thought
I. Introduction
II. Blackstone, Legal Science, and the Productive Household
A. The “private œconomical relations”
B. Master and Servant
C. Husband and Wife
D. Blackstone and Nineteenth-Century Legal Thought
III. Household and Marriage in the Early Nineteenth Century
IV. The Influence of Jurisprudence
A. The Analyst: John Austin
B. The Historicist: Friedrich Carl von Savigny
V. The Influence of Statutory Developments
A. Divorce and the Legal Character of Marriage
B. Decriminalization and the Legal Character of Work
VI. Classical Legal Thought in England: Abstracting Contract and Subtracting Marriage
A. Consolidating Contract by Distinguishing Marriage: Pollock and Anson
B. Translating CLT into Taxonomy: Holland
VII. The Emergence of English Domestic Relations Law
VIII. The Emergence of Family Law
A. Cementing the Family/Work and Status/Contract Distinctions: Salmond
B. Family Law and Employment Law Emerge and Diverge
C. Family Law in the Textbook Tradition
IX. Conclusion

Chapter 3: Law and the Disarticulation of Work from Family Life
I. Introduction
II. Property, Poverty, and Wage Labour
A. Property: Enclosure, Households, and Work
B. Poverty: The Discipline of Work 
III. Wage Labour, Contract, and the Subordination of Workers
A. The Philosophical Basis of Coercion under Contract
B. Punishment and Performance
IV. Conclusion

Chapter 4: Women and Youth, Work and Family
I. Introduction
II. Women, Work, and the Domestic Sphere
A. Paid Domestic Labour
B. Unpaid Domestic Labour
III. Youth, Work, and the Paths of Apprenticeship
A. Early Modern Apprenticeship Law
B. Household to Employment: The Transformation of Traditional Apprenticeship
C. Household to Family: The Transformation of Parish Apprenticeship
IV. Conclusion

Chapter 5: Legislating Marriage
I. Introduction
II. Civilizing Marriage
A. Lord Hardwicke’s Act
B. Lord Lyndhurst’s Act
C. Civil Marriage Act
III. Incentivizing Marriage
A. Poor Laws
B. Compensation Statutes 
IV. Stabilizing Marriage
A. Divorce 
B. Married Women’s Property
V. Conclusion

Chapter 6: The Public Importance of Marriage in English Common Law
I. Introduction
II. Stretching the Bounds of Contract: The Action for Breach of Promise to Marry 
A. Heart Balm for Women (Only)
B. “It would be indelicate to expect that she should consent in words”
C. Expectations of Emotional Harm
III. The Status of Marriage in the Conflict of Laws
A. Marriage, Contract, and Deference to Lex Loci Celebrationis
B. Dissolution, Domicile and State Control
C. Domicile and Marital Validity
D. Dissolving the Status of Marriage
IV. Conclusion

Conclusion
Marriage, Family, and Work: Past and Present
Bibliography
Cases
Statutes
Books, Chapters, and Articles
Government Reports and Documents
Newspapers, Non-legal Periodicals, and Blogs
Parliamentary Debates