One of the greatest challenges and opportunities of our time lies in harnessing the innovative potential of emerging technologies to help achieve a more prosperous and just society. Discussions of how to do so are at the center of debates over how artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning,...

In this paper, Thomas Kochan, the George M. Bunker Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research, explores how the labor management relations system in the U.S. and, in particular, workplace dispute systems, may...

Technological change shapes how we work. But what if workers were to shape technological change? Could that improve organizational success and the quality of jobs? These questions were the focus of a workshop held at MIT in June 2019, and this document contains highlights of the workshop...

These days, large companies with global supply chains often have “second identities as transnational labor regulators,” write Matthew Amengual, Greg Distelhorst, and Danny Tobin in this new paper, which will be forthcoming in the journal Industrial and Labor Relations Review. That’s because many...