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

• Autore: Stone Katherine Van Wezel
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 331
• Soggetto topico: Industrial relations; Labor market; Manpower policy; Human capital; Employees; Organizational change
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: From widgets to digits
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784439703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II