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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.

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: August 29, 2023

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

Combating Inequality

Rethinking Government's Role

Edited by Olivier Blanchard and Dani Rodrik

ISBN: 9780262547253

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 15, 2023

Leading economists and policymakers consider what economic tools are most effective in reversing the rise in inequality.

The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship

Job Creation and Survival among U.S. Startups

by Robert W. Fairlie, Zachary Kroff, Javier Miranda and Nikolas Zolas

ISBN: 9780262545358

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 1, 2023

Forthcoming from the MIT Press

Data and Democracy at Work

Advanced Information Technologies, Labor Law, and the New Working Class

by Brishen Rogers

ISBN: 9780262545136

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 21, 2023

An exploration of how major companies have used advanced information technologies to limit worker power, and how labor law reform could reverse that trend.

Working with AI

Real Stories of Human-Machine Collaboration

by Thomas H. Davenport and Steven M. Miller

ISBN: 9780262047241

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 27, 2022

Two management and technology experts show that AI is not a job destroyer, exploring worker-AI collaboration in real-world work settings.

Digital Work in the Planetary Market

Edited by Mark Graham and Fabian Ferrari

ISBN: 9780262543767

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 14, 2022

Understanding the embedded and disembedded, material and immaterial, territorialized and deterritorialized natures of digital work.

Putting Skill to Work

How to Create Good Jobs in Uncertain Times

by Nichola Lowe

ISBN: 9780262045162

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 16, 2021

An argument for reimagining skill in a way that can extend economic opportunity to workers at the bottom of the labor market.

Workforce Education

A New Roadmap

by William B. Bonvillian and Sanjay E. Sarma

ISBN: 9780262044882

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 2, 2021

A roadmap for how we can rebuild America's working class by transforming workforce education and training.

States of Childhood

From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895-1945

by Jennifer S. Light

ISBN: 9780262539012

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: July 14, 2020

A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of...

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