The following chapters 7- 10 treat along what lines the relationship between master and servant, and between employer and employee were discussed in the Swedish parliament, in preparatory works and by legal scholars from the 1890s and until the labour court made its decisive decisions around 1930.The aim is to study how the doctrine about the worker’s duty of obedience emerged and how this general principle of law was related to the emergence of the Swedish collective model. Although the legislative history of the period in concern is a story mainly about bills and proposals that were rejected, one must notice that very few areas of Swedish law had been examined so thoroughly as the relationship between employer and worker. The legislative ambitions resulted in a large quantity of printed preparatory works which illustrate conflicting attitudes concerning the contract of employment.Along with this important official material we will also pay attention to the few and guarded analyses of the contract of employment which were made by contemporary Swedish legal scholars.The material in question serves as a background for the concluding legal historical reflections on the labour court’s important decisions between 1929-1934. p a r t i v, c h a p t e r 7 170 7 Sweden’s road to a contract of employment and collective self-regulation 7. 1 i s sue s and theoret ical start ing points
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