San Antonio College Library

In this film, learn about intellectual property law and contracts from lawyer Angela Perry. She explains intellectual property ownership, why it can be unclear whether an employee or a business owns ideas, and how to clarify these boundaries in employment contracts. She explains the ownership and transfer of intellectual property, and distinguishes IP, copyright and trademarks. She differentiates and explains confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements....

Topics covered include theories and changes of labour markets, wage structures, job characteristics, skills and wages, pay flexibility.

James D. Schmidt examines federal efforts to establish "free labor" in the South during and after the Civil War by exploring labor law in the antebellum North and South and its role in the development of a capitalist labor market. Identifying the emergence of conservative, moderate, and liberal stances on state intervention in the labor market, Schmidt develops three important case studies - wartime Reconstruction in Louisiana, the Thirteenth Amendment,...

Study of interest group conflicts at international and national level resulting from the 'bracero' labour contract system of employing Mexican migrant workers as rural workers in the USA from 1942 to 1964, and its impact on American foreign policy and international relations between the USA and Mexico - comments on labour legislation and international agreements affecting both foreign migrant workers and native rural workers and examines domestic...