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Thomas A. Kochan

Thomas Kochan 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. He is the co-author of Shaping the Future of Work: A Handbook for Action and a New Social Contract.

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Class & Inequality

Six Labor Policies We Need Now

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

Forum Response

Technology for the Common Good

There must be an explicit technology component in the labor movement.

Thomas A. Kochan

Politics

What Would Frances Perkins Do?

We should turn to Frances Perkins—FDR’s secretary of labor, and the first woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet—for the elements of a new forward-looking labor and employment policy.

Thomas A. Kochan

Class & Inequality

A New Social Contract for Work

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

Forum Response

Kochan responds to Pope

Worker rights are human rights.

Thomas A. Kochan

Class & Inequality, Politics

Marching (Again) for Jobs and Wages

Today’s mix of economic problems calls for demands that echo those of the 1963 marchers.

Thomas A. Kochan

Class & Inequality, Politics

Protective Bargaining

How to Prevent the Labor Wars

Thomas A. Kochan

Forum Response

The Right Time

Still, we must ask: Is this all unrealistic?

Thomas A. Kochan

       

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