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"That Indispensable Figment Of The Legal Mind": The Contract Of Employment At Common Law In Ontario, 1890-1979, Claire Isabel Mummé
"That Indispensable Figment Of The Legal Mind": The Contract Of Employment At Common Law In Ontario, 1890-1979, Claire Isabel Mummé
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“The relation between an employer and an isolated employee or worker is typically a relation between a bearer of power and one who is not a bearer of power. In its inception it is an act of submission, in its operation it is a condition of subordination, however much the submission and the subordination may be concealed by the indispensable figment of the legal mind known as the 'contract of employment'.” Otto Kahn-Freund , Labour and the Law (London: Stevens, 1977). This study examines the legal evolution of the common law of employment contracts in Ontario between the 1890s and …