From widgets to digits : employment regulation for the changing workplace / Katherine V.W. Stone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, Katherine Van Wezel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial relations.

Labor market.

Manpower policy.

Human capital.

Employees.

Organizational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Artisanal Production; 2. Industrial Production; 3. Digital Production; The Structure of the Book; 1 Artisanal Production in the Nineteenth Century; 2 The Labor System of the Industrial Era; 3 From Scientific Management to Internal Labor Markets; 4 The Changing Nature of Employment; 5 The New Employment Relationship; 6 Implications of the New Workplace for Labor and Employment Regulation; 7 Disputes over Ownership of Human Capital; 8 The Changing Nature of Employment Discrimination

9 Unionism in the Boundaryless Workplace 10 Reimagining Employee Representation; 11 The Crisis in Benefits and the Collapse of the Private Welfare State; 12 The Working Rich and the Working Poor: Income Inequality in the Digital Era; Summary and Conclusion; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14771-9

1-280-54051-6

0-511-21529-0

0-511-21708-0

0-511-21171-6

0-511-31571-6

0-511-61708-9

0-511-21348-4

OCLC:

171139119