| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Industrial relations.
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Industrial relations. |
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Labor market.
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Labor market. |
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Manpower policy.
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Manpower policy. |
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Human capital.
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Human capital. |
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Employees.
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Employees. |
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Organizational change.
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Organizational change. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stone, Katherine Van Wezel. From widgets to digits. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004 (DLC) 2003056855 |
| ISBN |
0511208138 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511208133 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511211713 |
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0511211716 |
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9780521829106 (hardback) |
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0521829100 (hardback) |
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9780521535991 (pb) |
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0521535999 (pb) |
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0511215290 (electronic book) |
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9780511215292 (electronic book) |
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0511217080 (electronic book) |
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9780511217081 (electronic book) |
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9780511617089 (ebook) |
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0511617089 (ebook) |
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1280540516 |
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9781280540516 |
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0511211716 |
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0521829100 (hardback) |
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0521535999 (pb) |
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