Tag: Labor
Robots won’t steal our jobs if we put workers at center...
Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management and Lee Dyer, Cornell University
The technologies driving artificial intelligence are expanding exponentially, leading many technology experts and...
How noncompete clauses clash with US labor laws
Raymond Hogler, Colorado State University
Most Americans with jobs work “at-will”: Employers owe their employees nothing in the relationship and vice versa. Either party may...
How union stakes in ailing papers like the Chicago Sun-Times may...
Marick Masters, Wayne State University
The recent purchase of the Chicago Sun-Times for a nominal US$1 by a consortium of labor-affiliated organizations and individual investors...
The backstory behind the unions that bought a Chicago Sun-Times stake
Brian Dolber, California State University San Marcos
An investment group led by former Chicago alderman and businessman Edwin Eisendrath and the Chicago Federation of Labor...
Why America’s labor unions are about to die
Raymond Hogler, Colorado State University
I’ve written before on how the decline of organized labor beginning in the late 1970s gave birth to the backlash...
How to transform workers’ campaign rage into better jobs and wages
Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management
The presidential campaigns deserve some credit for finally voicing some of the deep frustrations and anger felt by...
How do we ensure the next generation of workers…
How do we ensure the next generation of workers isn't worse off than the last?
Discussions about the future of work are clearly in the...
Rebirth of Progressivism may breathe new life in labor unions
Bob Bussel, University of Oregon
A decade and a half into the 21st century, the American labor movement resembles a chronically ill patient suffering from...
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...
