The Net Economy:
Changes in the Corporation, Employment, and Work

Corporate Organization


Huseman, Richard C. and Jon P. Goodman, Realm of the Red Queen: The Impact of Change on Corporate Structure, Corporate Education, and the Emergence of Knowledge Organizations, www.ec2.edu/dccenter/ok/realm.pdf

The Evolving Workplace—The Workplace and Employee Pilot Survey Results
http://www.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/arb/publications/bulletin/vol4n2/V4n2C4E.shtml
Employment and Work Trends

Journal of Computer Mediated Communications. Special Issue on Virtual Organizations
http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol3/issue4/

Employment Trends

New systems of corporate organization and commodity production have been emerging in the major industrialized countries of the world. These developments are related to a several interconnected factors including the transition to a service and information economy, the process of globalization, and the emergence of computerization and computer assisted communication. Four employment trends have been hypothesized as significant results of these influences:
  1. the replacement of human labour by machines and the disappearance of work;
  2. the increasing incidence of flexible forms of work in the form of part time work, shift work, home work, and self employment;
  3. the emergence teleworkers
  4. an increasing segmentation and polarization of the work force on the basis of skill levels, union membership, job stability, and employment income.

1. Computerization and the redundance of labour

Many people have viewed automation as a system of machine replacement of human labour and consequently as a threat to employment. This perspective has most recently been enuciated by Jeremy Rifkin in the End of Work, The Decline of the Global Labour Force and the The end of the job. Dawn of the Post-Market Era (1995).

IMP - Information Impacts Magazine
April 2000, Special Edition:
The IT Workforce: Who Works Today? Tomorrow? In 20 Years?
http://www.cisp.org/imp/april_2000/04_00contents.htm


The role of self-employment in U.S. and Canadian job growth
Marilyn E. Manser and Garnett Picot
http://stats.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1999/04/art2full.pdf

Lessons Learned on Own-account Self-employment in Canada

Diverging Trends in Self-employment in Canada
http://www.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/arb/publications/bulletin/vol4n1/v4n1c07e.shtml

The labour market in the 1990s
http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/000120/d000120c.htm

Part-time work and industry growth,
Bruce C. Fallick
http://stats.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1999/03/art3full.pdf
 

November 1996, Vol. 118, No. 11
Home-based workers: data from the 1990 Census of Population
 Linda N. Edwards                             Elizabeth Field-Hendrey
              http://stats.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1996/11/art3abs.htm

Houseman, Susan H., and Polivka, Anne E.
(1998) "The Implications of Flexible Security."
http://stats.bls.gov/ore/abstract/ec/ec980040.htm

Labor force projections to 2008: steady growth and changing composition
Howard N Fullerton, Jr
http://stats.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1999/11/art3full.pdf
 

Telework

The International Workplace Studies Program (IWSP) at Cornell University

Transportation Implications of Telecommuting
(Bureau of Transportation Statistics)
 

Canadian Telework Association
 

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/

BEYOND TELECOMMUTING:
A NEW PARADIGM FOR THE EFFECT OF
TELECOMMUNICATIONS ON TRAVEL
http://www.lbl.gov/ICSD/Niles/NilesTOC.html

In us govt.
http://www.internetcenter.state.mn.us/Itn-001.htm

Institute of Transportation Studies
http://nachos.engr.ucdavis.edu/~its/tcenters/reports.stm

Washington State University - Telework page
http://www.energy.wsu.edu/telework/case.htm

California page
http://www.dpa.ca.gov/telework/teleresearch.shtm

US West statewide studies in telework
http://www.uswest.com/largebusiness/ews/ews_res_surveys.html

http://www.engr.ucdavis.edu/~its/telecom/refpubs.html#TRP29
(Gender)

http://www.telecommute.org/

http://www.att.com/telework/

http://www.langhoff.com/faqs.html Telework Programs Are On The Rise. CMP Information Week. April 10, 2000. http://www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?IWK20000410S0062 Michael R. Smith
1999 Insecurity in The Labour Market: The Case of Canada Since The Second World War. Canadian Journal of Sociology: 193-224 http://www.ualberta.ca/~cjscopy/articles/smith.html

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