This is from Professor Mummes concluding paragraph: . . . the boundaries created by temporal limitations on working time have historically emerged from market practices, through collective bargaining and statutory restrictions. But as those restrictions are loosened [by growing employer power over the employment contract] through changing market practices, the decreasing strength of trade unions and statutory deregulation, in many types of employment working time no longer erects a contractual boundary between one’s own lives and the time we have leased to our employers. Contract provides no method of challenging the creeping extension of working time and employer control, such that in the absence of legal mechanisms like statutory regulation, the distinctions between the temporary lease of one’s labour power, and the general alienation of one’s self, becomes more tenuous. Note: For non-lawyers, when papers like this refer to the contract between employer and employee, it does not mean that an actual paper contract exists. A contract exists in any situation where someone is working for someone else, even if there is just a silent understanding as to what is expected.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 10:45:55 +0000
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