Vinel Symposium: ‘The Employee’: from labor history to the history of work?

The article offers the author's opinion on the book "The Employee: A Political History" by Jean-Christian Vinel. The author says that the book suggests that historians would benefit by making a similar conceptual shift from labor history to employment history. He also says that Vinel is interested in the history of the legal category employee due to its implicaitions for the history of workers' organizing and collective action.