c o n t i n u i t y a n d c o n t r ac t 241 at tasks that were directly hazardous, in conflict with legislation on occupational protection, or were in conflict with the worker’s justifiable interest, for example, if such tasks caused the worker greater inconvenience, effort or cost than before. Undén exemplified the last mentioned condition by stating that a worker who was occupied indoors could not be enjoined to work outdoors. The individual relationship, again, had three dimensions.Within the first, the compensation relationship, which referred to the exchange of labour for pay, there was equality between the employer and worker in legal terms. The subordination relationship, secondly, was distinguished on the other hand by the individual worker’s personal obligation to obey, the extent of which depended on the “nature” of the contract.The protection relationship, lastly, referred to the employer’s obligation to provide for the worker’s safety.As opposed to the two other relationships, this obligation was not the result of the character of the contract, but instead was due to public legislation.488 Undén was a pioneer of the Swedish doctrine in that he early realised the importance of the collective agreements for the development of labour law.Undén supported theVerbandstheorie mentioned above (Sw. föreningsteorin), according to which the organisations, but not the individual members were bound by the collective agreements.489Thus he rejected the “combination/cumulative” theory (Ge. Die Kombinierte Theorie, Sw. den kumulativa teorin), which bound the individual members to follow the agreement.This theory, however, which had been expressed in the Swedish bills of 1910 and1911, was the alternative that would be the prevailing one in the Swedish model of collective selfregulation, which would reach a decisive point during the 1920s. In his thesis from1912, he argued emphatically that there was a very strong connection between collective agreements and obli488 Undén “Om arbetsreglementenas rättsliga natur”1910, pp. 440, 446-447. 489 Sundell 1987, pp. 285-286.
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