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A Composite Portrait of the Expanding American Security Industry

by Danny Goodwin and Edward Schwarzschild

Foreword by Winifred R. Poster

Afterword by Winifred R. Poster

ISBN: 9780262048699

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 6, 2024

An illuminating collection of candid interviews and photographs with workers in America's burgeoning security state.

Jobs, Health, and the Meaning of Work

by Mary Davis

ISBN: 9780262548694

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 6, 2024

Forthcoming from the MIT Press

Job Crafting

by Benjamin Laker, Lebene Soga, Yemisi Bolade-Ogunfodun and Adeyinka Adewale

ISBN: 9780262048880

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 23, 2024

A practical and timely guide that shows employees how to craft the jobs they want and managers how to shape their organizations in ways that are conducive to such job crafting.

Disparate Measures

The Intersectional Economics of Women in STEM Work

by Mary A. Armstrong and Susan L. Averett

ISBN: 9780262048866

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 26, 2024

An exploration of workplace participation and earnings patterns for diverse women in US STEM professions that upends the myth that STEM work benefits women economically.

Fulfilling the Pledge

Securing Industrial Democracy for American Workers in a Digital Economy

by Roger C. Hartley

ISBN: 9780262547130

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 13, 2024

An insightful and evidence-based assessment of our urgent need to enact labor law reform—and how to achieve it.

Work without Jobs

How to Reboot Your Organization's Work Operating System

by Ravin Jesuthasan and John W. Boudreau

ISBN: 9780262545969

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 7, 2023

In this Wall Street Journal bestseller, why the future of work requires the deconstruction of jobs and the reconstruction of work.

The Work of the Future

Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines

by David Autor, David A. Mindell and Elisabeth B. Reynolds

Foreword by Robert M. Solow

ISBN: 9780262547307

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 3, 2023

Why the United States lags behind other industrialized countries in sharing the benefits of innovation with workers and how we can remedy the problem.