Catherine L. Fisk

Good look at the change from individual to corporate control of innovation and creation, accomplished by changes in business practices and related changes in law. Most useful in demonstrating that the much-vaunted move from status to contract was not necessarily, as proponents often claimed, about expanding freedom; courts were entirely willing to imply terms in the contract that favored the employer and that were inconsistent with past practice. As employees often lacked bargaining power or even knowledge that they needed to bargain, this meant a substantial increase in vulnerability, connected to larger contradictions in the ideology of free labor.… (més)