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Knowledge Work: New Metaphors for the New Economy
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Fisk, Catherine L. |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | Metaphors and stories are the currency of complex systems. Like currency, they simplify transactions and help us understand that which is too new or too complex to grasp. Metaphors and narratives are crucial in labor and employment law, for the law of the workplace is an extraordinarily complex system and is becoming more so. Indeed, to use a metaphor, one might say that the law of the workplace is in the midst of a perfect storm. The winds of change are blowing hard from many directions. Globalization and information technology are changing every aspect of the way we work. Stable corporate jobs are disappearing, as AT&T (before it was swallowed in a merger) and Kodak were both dropped from the Dow Jones Industrial Average because they are too small.1 Unions are either withering or reinventing themselves as community organizations or professional associations. The convergence of these dramatic changes creates the need to address the demands of firms, workers, and society for a fundamental rethinking of labor and employment law and policy. We need new metaphors and narratives about work if we are to understand and effectively respond to these changes. The focus of this paper is a segment of the new economy that is vaguely, and usually breathlessly, referred to as “knowledge work.” Concepts like “knowledge work,” “the new economy,” and “the information age” moved rapidly from novelty to cliché, without gaining either a terribly clear meaning or a solid foothold in American law. The terms conjure up |
| Starting Page | 839 |
| Ending Page | 839 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 80 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://studentorgs.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/vol80no2/Fisk.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3499&context=cklawreview&httpsredir=1&referer= |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
