A generation ago, this would have been dismissed as “an insolent interference with the rights of management”; today it is obvious that upon no other terms can the function of the trade union be fulfilled.
Laski reflects on the changing attitudes towards trade union involvement in management rights over time.
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How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?
But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.
The theory of a state of nature, with the rights therein implied, is the contribution, through Stoicism, of the Roman lawyers, and the great medieval contrast to Aristotle's experimentalism.
The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
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