1st Edition

Shaping the Future of Work A Handbook for Action and a New Social Contract

By Thomas Kochan, Lee Dyer Copyright 2021
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides a clear roadmap for the roles workers and leaders in business, labor, education, and government must play in building a new social contract for all to prosper. It is a call to action for a collaborative effort to develop both high-quality jobs and strong, successful businesses while simultaneously overcoming the deep social and economic divisions that are all too apparent in... Read more

1. America’s Challenge and Opportunity: Building a New Social Contract at Work

2. What Was the Postwar Social Contract, Where Did It Come From, and What Made It

Work for Three Decades?

3. The Demise of the Old Social Contract and the Challenges and Opportunities that Lie Ahead

4. How Business Leaders Can Contribute to a New Social Contract

5. Married for Life: Workers and Educators

6. How Labor Can Contribute to a New Social Contract

7. How Government Leaders Can Contribute to a New Social Contract

8. A Call to Action

9. COVID-19 Postscript

Biography

Thomas A. Kochan is the co‐director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research and is the George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Lee Dyer is Emeritus Professor of Human Resource Studies and a research fellow with the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies at the ILR School, Cornell University.