Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of by Catherine L. Fisk

By Catherine L. Fisk

expert staff of the early 19th century loved a level independence simply because place of work wisdom and technical ability have been their "property," or not less than their characteristic. In such a lot sectors of latest economic system, even if, it's a foundational and extensively permitted fact that companies preserve felony possession of employee-generated highbrow estate.

In Working Knowledge, Catherine Fisk chronicles the criminal and social ameliorations that resulted in the move of possession of worker innovation from hard work to administration. This deeply contested improvement was once gained on the rate of employees' entrepreneurial independence and eventually, Fisk argues, monetary democracy.

By reviewing judicial judgements and criminal scholarship on all features of employee-generated highbrow estate and brushing the data of significant nineteenth-century highbrow property-producing companies--including DuPont, Rand McNally, and the yank Tobacco Company--Fisk makes a hugely technical quarter of legislation obtainable to common readers whereas additionally addressing scholarly deficiencies within the histories of work, highbrow estate, and the enterprise of technology.

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