From widgets to digits : employment regulation for the changing workplace /
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 hierarchic...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511208138 9780511208133 9780511211713 0511211716 9780521829106 0521829100 9780521535991 0521535999 0511215290 9780511215292 0511217080 9780511217081 9780511617089 0511617089 1280540516 9781280540516 1107147719 9781107147713 0511315716 9780511315718 0511213484 9780511213489 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
