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Explaining The Spread Of At-Will Employment As An Inter-Jurisdictional Race-To-The-Bottom In Employment Standards, Richard A. Bales
Explaining The Spread Of At-Will Employment As An Inter-Jurisdictional Race-To-The-Bottom In Employment Standards, Richard A. Bales
Richard A. Bales
The at-will employment rule often is attributed to Horace Gay Wood, who described the rule in an 1877 treatise. Over the next forty years, the rule was judicially adopted in most American states. How and why the rule spread, however, has been the subject of considerable academic debate.
This essay argues that the underindustrialized states first adopting the at-will rule likely did so as a means of attracting capital. In any event, and more importantly, this essay argues that once the first underindustrialized states adopted the rule, other underindustrialized states would have been compelled to adopt the rule to remain …
Explaining The Spread Of At-Will Employment As An Inter-Jurisdictional Race-To-The-Bottom Of Employment Standards, Richard A. Bales
Explaining The Spread Of At-Will Employment As An Inter-Jurisdictional Race-To-The-Bottom Of Employment Standards, Richard A. Bales
Richard A. Bales
The at-will employment rule is often attributed to Horace Gay Wood, who described the rule in an 1877 treatise. Over the next forty years, the rule was judicially adopted in most American states. How and why the rule spread, however, has been the subject of considerable academic debate.
This essay argues that the underindustrialized states first adopting the at-will rule likely did so as a means of attracting capital. In any event, and more importantly, this essay argues that once the first underindustrialized states adopted the rule, other underindustrialized states would have been compelled to adopt the rule to remain …