c o n t i n u i t y a n d c o n t r ac t 247 the inequality between the parties.Wikander emerges as a dissident in the Swedish doctrine of the day. Like many of the other writers, he gained support for his theses from German writers. Like all the others, his starting point was that what was usual on the labour market should also constitute the source for general, basic legal principles. But important differences were that Wikander broadened the perspective to the intellectual professions. He read reality differently and his analysis lacks the references to general sense of justice and “the nature of things” that are found in Nordling, Chydenius, Björling and Undén. His conclusions and their theoretical basis were far from Undén’s theses about the employer’s unilateral, far-reaching “master prerogatives” constituting naturale contractus pursuant to exisiting optional customary law. ButWikander was a lone voice.According to the prevailing opinion among Swedish private law scholars, the service contract was, by its nature, considered to be an authoritarian relationship characterised by obedience and subjection. cont i nu i ty and contract Historical Perspectives on the Employee’s Duty of Obedience in Swedish Labour Law h
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