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- Advance Praise for The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Labor Law Is Out of Date
- Part III The “Fissured” Workplace
- 11 Some Problems With NLRA Coverage
- 12 Twenty-First Century Employers
- 13 The Problem of “Misclassification” or How to Define Who Is an “Employee” under Protective Legislation in the Information Age
- 14 Rupture and Invention
- 15 Contemplating New Categories of Workers
- 16 Balancing Flexibility and Rigidity
- Part IV Barriers to Forming a Collective Bargaining Relationship
- Part V Barriers to Bargaining a Good Contract
- Part VI Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
15 - Contemplating New Categories of Workers
Technology and the Fissured Workplace
from Part III - The “Fissured” Workplace
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 November 2019
- Advance Praise for The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Labor Law Is Out of Date
- Part III The “Fissured” Workplace
- 11 Some Problems With NLRA Coverage
- 12 Twenty-First Century Employers
- 13 The Problem of “Misclassification” or How to Define Who Is an “Employee” under Protective Legislation in the Information Age
- 14 Rupture and Invention
- 15 Contemplating New Categories of Workers
- 16 Balancing Flexibility and Rigidity
- Part IV Barriers to Forming a Collective Bargaining Relationship
- Part V Barriers to Bargaining a Good Contract
- Part VI Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
Summary
As Joseph Slater discusses in his chapter introducing this section, the question of who should be covered by labor law is one of increasing importance. This chapter discusses one possible response: the creation of new categories of workers. Many jobs once classified as standard full-time “employee” positions now are subject to some form of workplace fissuring. Once staffed by employees under a standard contract of employment, an increasing number of jobs are now split up, contracted out, divided, outsourced, or broken apart. In particular, whether as a cause, facilitator, or a mere incidental factor, certain types of workplace technology seem to have accelerated this trend toward workplace fissuring. Whether through the use of just-in-time workplace scheduling management programs, or platforms that can be used to outsource work across the Internet, technology and workplace fissuring often seem to go hand-in-hand.
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