DIGESTS

The Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative digests are conversation starters. Each focuses on one topic at the forefront of concern as we shape our working future. These digests are intended to be a weave of ideas in play and a synthesis of research underway here at MIT and beyond. Through the abundant links embedded in each digest, you can delve more deeply into the topic.

Read our digests: 

• "Six Steps Toward A Better Future for America's Workers," by Erin L. Kelly, Emilio J. Castilla, Thomas A. Kochan, Barbara Dyer, Paul Osterman and Nathan Wilmers (2020)

• "Worker Voice in America's Working Future," by Barbara Dyer (2019)

• "A Dance With Technology: Automation and Tomorrow's Jobs," by Barbara Dyer (2018)

 

INTERVIEWS

 

For our new interview series “Work in Progress,” we sit down with a researcher affiliated with our Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative to hear about the projects he or she is working on – and then share highlights of that conversation with you. It’s a great way to keep you abreast of the latest good jobs research coming out of MIT.

 

Read our "Work in Progress" interviews:

• "When Good Jobs Go Bad," an interview with Professor Erin L. Kelly of MIT Sloan, June 2019

• "Exploring the Drivers of Inequality," an interview with Professor Nathan Wilmers of MIT Sloan, July 2019

• "Creating Pathways to Better Jobs," an interview with Professor Paul Osterman of MIT Sloan, September 2019

• "Jump-Starting the Creation of Good Jobs," an interview with Professor Simon Johnson of MIT Sloan, January 2020

• "Glimpsing the Future of Work in Warehouses," an interview with MIT Sloan doctoral student Alex Kowalski, April 2020

• "Workers Find a New Voice Through Technology," and "Creating Clearer Pathways From Education to Good Jobs," two March 2021 interviews with Jenna Myers, who received her doctorate from MIT Sloan in 2021 and is now an Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies and Human Resources at the University of Toronto.

• "The Good Jobs Imperative," an interview with Barbara Dyer, MIT IWER Reseach Affiliate and former Executive Director of the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative, July 2021. 

You can read other new content from the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative in the What's New area of our site. Also, in the "In the News" area of our site, you can read articles that scholars affiliated with our Initiative have published elsewhere.