Stone katherine van wezel from widgets to digits employment regulation for the changing workplace from widgets to digits employment regulation for the changing workplace cambridge university press 2004. Widgets to digits is a work of grand synthesis while other books have talked about the new deal imposed on workers by corporate employers stone has theorized and drafted what could realistically be put forth as a new deal for workers in the larger political sense should that needed organizational change mechanism appear or should . Katherine vw stone from widgets to digits employment regulation for the changing workplace 13 2004 748 u pa journal of labor and employment law vol 73. From widgits to digits is about the changing nature of the employment relationship and its implications for labor and employment law for most of the twentieth century employers fostered long term employment relationships through the use of implicit promises of job security well defined hierarchical job ladders and longevity based wage and benefit schemes. From widgets to digits analyzes the impact of the new flexibile workplace on the issues of employment discrimination ownership of human capital worker representation employee benefits and income distribution and proposes legal and institutional reforms to ensure the conditions of success in todays boundaryless workplace professor stone contends that a constructive program for workplace