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Scope Of The Business: The Borrowed Servant Problem, Talbot Smith Jun 1940

Scope Of The Business: The Borrowed Servant Problem, Talbot Smith

Michigan Law Review

If your client wants to erect an office building he may be advised of the cost within narrow limits. The necessary expenditure will be X dollars plus Y lives or limbs. If his talents take the turn of bridge construction similar computations may be made. To carry forward to completion either of these projects he must use materials of various kinds, and he must use men. The expenditure of the human, animate, material is as inevitable as the expenditure of the inanimate. With increased care and skill the curve of expenditure of the human material will approach the asymptote of …


The Test Of The Employment Relation, Gerald M. Stevens Dec 1939

The Test Of The Employment Relation, Gerald M. Stevens

Michigan Law Review

Labor's status is the subject of what seems to be an interminable war, with campaigns in the courts, on picket lines, in conference rooms, and in legislative halls. The prominence of these battles increases, if anything, the obscurity in which a closely related conflict is being worked out. For as long as there are important distinctions to be made on the basis of whether an employment relation exists, there is fairly certain to be at least some argument over the existence of that relation.