From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace

By K. Stone. 2004

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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The rise of the "just-in-time workforce": on-demand work, crowdwork and labour protection in the "gig-economy" (2015, unknown): “This is all the more relevant as the FLSA was enacted in 1938, therefore in an age in which the trend was and had been for several years towards “vertical integration” and very hierarchical and bureaucratical and managerial prerogatives (Stone, 2004).”
Managing flexible work arrangements in US organizations: formalized discretion or ‘a right to ask’ (2006, background): “The organizational changes associated with the rise of this regime are variously referred to as the restructuring of work, the transformation of organizations, the rise of a new employment contract, the high road and low road, the dawn of a digital era in employment relations and more (Appelbaum and”
The quantified self: What counts in the neoliberal workplace (2016, background): “…of Taylorism is the external regulation of working bodies through cost accounting, time-motion measurement, and record-keeping, a process opposed by trade unions at the time it was introduced, but hailed by managers as a ‘path to prosperity, efficiency and social betterment’ (Stone, 2004: 35).”
Examining contemporary careers: A call for interdisciplinary inquiry (2008, background): “A further concern about the traditional model of social and economic organization comes from legal writers who suggest that present employment law neglects the interests of the mobile employee (Lobel, 2006; Stone, 2004).”
THE IMPACT OF MOTIVATION, EMPOWERMENT, AND SKILL‐ENHANCING PRACTICES ON AGGREGATE VOLUNTARY TURNOVER: THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF COLLECTIVE AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT (2011, background): “Purely firm-specific skills, meaning useful at a single organization, are uncommon; an employee with primarily firm-specific skills, exceedingly rare; and a pool of employees with primarily firm specific skills, highly unlikely (Lepak & Snell, 1999; Parsons, 1972; Stone, 2004, Ch. 7).”
The ‘Pre-Invention’ of Precarious Employment: The Changing World of Work in Context (2012, background): “Contracting out and temporary employment presented a challenge to an organised labour movement already on the defensive (Sverke 2003; Stone 2004), as well as undermining the coverage and effectiveness of regulatory regimes designed to set minimum labour standards and safeguard the safety and health…”