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Alternate Call Number
F 630 FIS.W
Summary
Chronicles the legal and social transformations that led to the transfer of ownership of employee innovation from labor to management. This deeply contested development was won at the expense of workers' entrepreneurial independence and ultimately, their economic democracy. From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-337) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
1. Stealing in the dark the improvements of others; 2. The genius which conceived and the toil which compiled the book; 3. If these mill owners desire to cripple a man's enterprise and his energy and intelligence, they must contract to that effect; 4. An ingenious man enabled by contract; 5. They claim to own him, body, and soul; 6. Corporate management of science and scientific management of corporations; 7. The corporation's money paid for the painting ; its artist colored it; its president designed it.
Series
Studies in legal history.
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.