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Author Fisk, Catherine L., 1961-

Title Working knowledge : employee innovation and the rise of corporate intellectual property, 1800-1930 / Catherine L. Fisk.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 360 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in legal history
Studies in legal history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Stealing in the dark the improvements of others -- The genius which conceived and the toil which compiled the book -- If these mill owners desire to cripple a man's enterprise and his energy and intelligence, they must contract to that effect -- An ingenious man enabled by contract -- They claim to own him, body, and soul -- Corporate management of science and scientific management of corporations -- The corporation's money paid for the painting ; its artist colored it; its president designed it -- Conclusion : attribution, authenticity, and the corporate production of technology and culture.
Summary In most sectors of today's economy, it is a foundational and widely accepted truth that businesses retain legal ownership of employee-generated intellectual property. That was not the case in the 19th century, however, when workplace knowledge and technical skill were considered the property of skilled workers. Fisk chronicles the legal and social transformations that led to the transfer of ownership of employee innovation from labor to management and argues that this deeply contested development was won at the expense of workers' entrepreneurial independence and ultimately economic democracy.
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Subject Inventions, Employees' -- United States -- History.
Inventions, Employees'.
United States.
History.
Intellectual property -- United States.
Intellectual property.
Patents and government-developed inventions -- United States.
Patents and government-developed inventions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books -- History.
History.
Electronic books -- History -- Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Fisk, Catherine L., 1961- Working knowledge. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009 9780807833025 (DLC) 2009009385 (OCoLC)313018327
ISBN 9780807899069 (electronic book)
0807899062 (electronic book)
9781469605333 (electronic book)
1469605333 (electronic book)
0807833029 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780807833025 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780807833025 (cloth ; alkaline paper)