Tag: Labor
Why are there so few women CEOs?
Michael Holmes, Florida State University
Women comprise about 47% of the U.S. workforce, yet they make up barely a quarter of all senior executives at...
How Democrats can win back workers in 2020
Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management
Labor unions and the workers they represent were once the heart and soul of the Democratic Party.
The 2016...
How to prevent the ‘robot apocalypse’ from ending labor as we...
Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management and Elisabeth Reynolds, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
It seems not a day goes by without the appearance of...
Why Google’s employees walked out and what it could mean for...
Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management
The recent walkout by thousands of Google employees at offices around the world was the first protest of...
Green Bay Packers fans love that their team doesn’t have an...
Alan J. Kellner, Northwestern University
In July, I was walking with my parents through the newly constructed Titletown District in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a new...
US prisoners’ strike is reminder how commonplace inmate labor is –...
Ruben J. Garcia, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Prisoners in 17 U.S. states went on strike on Aug. 21 by refusing to eat or work...
Does thinking you look fat affect how much money you earn?
Patricia Smith, University of Michigan and Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
Two things people often think about are money and their appearance. Past...
How ‘media snacks’ – from HQ Trivia to Candy Crush –...
Ethan Tussey, Georgia State University
When Snow White sang “Whistle While You Work,” she was participating in a long tradition of using entertainment to manage...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
