Modernity is a deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power.
On 'The Apprentice,' I'm 100 per cent certain I'm paid the same as Claude Littner. I insisted on equality when I negotiated my contract. I would not have allowed anything else.
I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.
In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.
It's become the norm that a player who has another year on his contract period has a decision between separation or extension.
I didn't have a big-time contract out of college like most athletes. In fact I had no contract at all.
Making it financially does not protect you, though. Genetic gifts and a gigantic professional contract do not shield athletes from the effect of damaged childhoods.
Publishing is a business. It's about squeezing every last dollar out of every available source, and the most vulnerable source is the author. No clearer proof of that exists than the 'standard' book contract.