From Widgets to Digits Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace [Paperback]

This book studies changes in the employment relationship and the implications for labor and employment law.FROM WIDGETS TO DIGITS is about the changing nature of the employment relationship and its implications for labor and employment law. The existing labor and employment laws were built on the assumption of long-term, stable relationships between employees and firms. 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.FROM WIDGETS TO DIGITS is about the changing nature of the employment relationship and its implications for labor and employment law. The existing labor and employment laws were built on the assumption of long-term, stable relationships between employees and firms. 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.Although existing labor and employment laws were built on the assumption of long-term, stable relationships between employees and firms, this book explores the changing nature of the employment relationship and its implications for labor and employment law. The current challenge of labor regulations is to find a means to provide workers with continuity in wages, ongoing training opportunities, sustainable and transferable skills, unambiguous ownership of their human capital, portable benefits, and support structures to enable them to weather career transitions.Introduction; Part I. Labor Relations Regimes of the Past: 1. Artisanal production in the nineteenth century; 2. The labor system of the industrial era; 3. From scientific managementl“Y