THE CONTRACT OF  EMPLOYMENT: A STUDY IN  LEGAL EVOLUTION

Deakin, S.

dc.contributor.author	Deakin, S.
dc.date.accessioned	2025-02-21T09:12:04Z
dc.date.available	2025-02-21T09:12:04Z
dc.date.issued	2001-06
dc.identifier.uri	http://digitalrepository.cipmlk.org/handle/1/708
dc.description.abstract	This paper reconstructs the evolutionary path of the contract of employment in English law. It demonstrates that the contract of employment is a more recent innovation than is widely thought, and that its essential features owe as much to legislation as they do to the common law of contract. The master-servant model of the nineteenth century was only displaced by the modern contract of employment as a result of twentieth century social legislation and collective bargaining. The paper discusses present-day mutations in the legal form of employment in the light of this analysis.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	ESRC Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge;203
dc.subject	contract of employment, poor law, master and servant, collective bargaining, welfare state, legal evolution, path dependence	en_US
dc.title	THE CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT: A STUDY IN LEGAL EVOLUTION	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US