employment regulation for the changing workplace /
Katherine V.W. Stone.
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
1 online resource (xii, 300 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Labor Relations Regimes of the Past -- Artisanal production in the nineteenth century -- The labor system of the industrial era -- From scientific management to internal labor markets -- The Digital Workplace -- The changing nature of employment -- The new employment relationship -- Implications of Digital Job Structures for Labor and Employment Law -- Implications of the new workplace for labor and employment regulation -- Disputes over ownership of human capital -- The changing nature of employment discrimination -- Unionism in the boundaryless workplace -- Unionism in the boundaryless workplace -- Social Justice in the Digital Era -- The crisis in benefits and the collapse of the private welfare state -- The working rich and the working poor: income inequality in the digital era.
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From Widgits to Digits is about the changing nature of the employment relationship and its implications for labor and employment law. For most of the twentieth century, employers fostered long-term employment relationships through the use of implicit promises of job security, well-defined hierarchical job ladders, and longevity-based wage and benefit schemes. Today's employers no longer value longevity or seek to encourage long-term attachment between the employee and the firm. Instead employers seek flexibility in their employment relationships. As a result, employees now operate as free agents in a boundaryless workplace, in which they move across departmental lines within firms, and across firm borders, throughout their working lives. Today's challenge is to find a means to provide workers with continuity in wages, on-going training opportunities, sustainable and transferable skills, unambiguous ownership of their human capital, portable benefits, and an infrastructure of support structures to enable them to weather career transitions.