This study (part iii) focuses on the period 1800-1885. Its central issues concern how Swedish legislation and scholars, in particular Alfred Ossian Winroth, treated the master-servant relationship (Sw. tjänstehjonsförhållandet) as well as the new labour alliances that “in real life” emerged outside this traditional relationship. One part of that question concerned whether these relationships should be categorised as branches of family law or of contract law. Another part, the importance of which was to increase rapidly during the decades around the turn of the century 1900, concerned what master-servant rules that could be analogously applied to the new “free” or “general” types of labour contract. It is obvious that Swedish jurists of the 19th century showed considerable ambivalence when trying to analyse the working life of their time.111 Thomas Adlercreutz has made an extensive survey of the regulations of the Statute on Hired Servants of 1833 and the multifaceted debate that took place before the Statute was eventually abolished in 1926. Adlercreutz notes that many basic ideas of the old master-servant statutes were transferred to c o n t i n u i t y a n d c o n t r ac t 61 “…must be considered as lying in the nature of the contract.” 3.1 theoret ical points of de parture 111 Adlercreutz,A1954, pp. 27-34, 151-154; Schmidt, F 1957; Schmidt, F 1959; Sigeman 1967; Sundell 1987; Göransson, 1988. part i i i , chapter 3 3The transition period 1800-1885
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