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Thomas A. Kochan

ThomasĀ KochanĀ is the Co-Director of the Institute for Work and Employment Research and the George M. Bunker Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Articles

Workers deserve substantive policy reforms that point the way to a better future, especially in this year of unprecedented crisis.

Erin L. Kelly, Emilio J. Castilla, Thomas A. Kochan, Barbara Dyer, Paul Osterman, Nathan Wilmers

FDRā€™s labor secretary had a vision for forward-looking labor and employment policy.

Thomas A. Kochan
This Labor Day, it is not enough to speak out against Trump's many injustices. We must also begin laying the foundations for working together in the post-Trump era, whenever that arrives.
Thomas A. Kochan, Lee Dyer

Todayā€™s mix of economic problems calls for demands that echo those of the 1963 marchers.

Thomas A. Kochan
How to Prevent the Labor Wars
Thomas A. Kochan

Forum Responses

There must be an explicit technology component in the labor movement.
Thomas A. Kochan
Pope, Bruno, and Kellman make two very critical points in their essay: first, that labor law fails to protect workers’ rights to organize and obtain access to collective bargaining; and second, that...
Thomas A. Kochan
Americans need a new set of family- centered labor market policies and institutions if we are to address the problems facing working families that Jody Heymann documents so clearly and eloquently. The...
Thomas A. Kochan

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