TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fisk,Catherine L.
ED  - American Society for Legal History.
TI  - Working knowledge: employee innovation and the rise of corporate intellectual property, 1800-1930 
T2  - Studies in legal history
SN  - 9781469605333
AV  - KF3135 .F57 2009
U1  - 346.730486 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chapel Hill, [N.C.]
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Inventions, Employees'
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Intellectual property
KW  - Patents and government-developed inventions
KW  - Law
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Legal history
KW  - thema
KW  - Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law
N1  - Published in association with the American Society for Legal History; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - Skilled workers of the early nineteenth century enjoyed a degree of professional independence because workplace knowledge and technical skill were their 'property', or at least their attribute. In most sectors of today's economy, however, it is a fundamental and widely accepted truth that businesses retain legal ownership of employee-generated intellectual property. This book chronicles the legal and social transformations that led to the transfer of ownership of employee innovation from labour to management
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/9780807899069_fisk
ER  -