Book description
Shaping the Future of Work lays out a comprehensive strategy for changing the course the American economy and employment system have been on for the past 30 years. The goal is to create more productive businesses that also provide good jobs and careers and by doing so build a more inclusive economy and broadly shared prosperity. This will require workers to acquire new sources of bargaining power and for business, labor, government, and educators to work together to meet the challenges and opportunities facing the next generation workforce. The book reviews what worked well for average workers, families, and the economy during the era of the post-World War II Social Contract, why that contract broke down, and how, working together, we can build a new social contract suitable to today's economy and workforce. The ideas presented here come from direct engagement with next generation workers who participated in a MIT online course devoted to the future of work and from the author's 40 years of research and active involvement with business, government, and labor leaders over how to foster innovations in workplace practices and policies.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Chapter 1 The Next Generation’s American Dream: What Can Be Done to Achieve It?
- Chapter 2 What Was the Postwar Social Contract, Where Did It Come From, and What Made It Work for Three Decades?
- Chapter 3 What Changed in the 1980s and After?
- Chapter 4 Out of Crisis, Innovation: Seedbeds for the Future of Work
- Chapter 5 A New Age of Innovation?
- Chapter 6 A Call to Action: Building the Next-Generation Social Contract
- Index
Product information
- Title: Shaping the Future of Work
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2015
- Publisher(s): Business Expert Press
- ISBN: 9781631574023
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