Labor contracts shift subordination toward relative coordination between parties

Evidence

The gathering of journeymen in their own estate was centered upon the attempt at transforming the personal-service relationship into a contractual relationship: as soon as the organization of the “servants” was achieved, their name, most characteristically, was replaced by that of “journeymen.” In general, it is relative coordination, instead of absolute subordination, which is correlated with the contractual form, no matter what the material content of the contract may be. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 6631

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the conceptual shift from personal subordination (Knecht/servant) to contractual coordination (journeyman).
• XREF: connects to: US unions traded bargaining power for collaboration with Fordist production — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 798