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Autore |
Fisk Catherine L. <1961-> |
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Titolo |
Working knowledge : employee innovation and the rise of corporate intellectual property, 1800-1930 / / Catherine L. Fisk |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-0533-3 |
0-8078-9906-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (373 p.) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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Inventions, Employees' - United States - History |
Intellectual property - United States |
Patents and government-developed inventions - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 foundational and widely accepted truth that businesses retain legal ownership of employee-generated intellectual property. In Working Knowledge, Catherine Fisk 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 |
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