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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Main Author: Stone, Katherine Van Wezel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.