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Article: Non-Compete Agreements Need A Local Focus, Even For Global Employers.
- Article from:
- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- December 12, 2007
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In the latter part of the eighteenth century, England sought to protect its advantage in textile technology by forbidding the transfer of the plans and drawings of the mill machinery and the emigration of the textile workers. One Samuel Slater, having risen from apprentice to superintendent of one of England's first cotton mills, committed the designs to memory and left for America disguised as a farmer, where he designed and built the first textile mill in America, becoming the father of the American industrial revolution and a very wealthy man.
In the early years of the twenty-first century, the story has changed very little. Employers still seek to ensure that ...