Introduction to Week 5
Welcome to our fifth week of Shaping the Future of Work. My name is Christine Riordan, and I am a PhD student here at the Institute for Work and Employment Research at MIT. I'm filling in for Professor Kochan this morning, who you will hear from later in the week. There are two items that we want to highlight as we start this week of the course. One is our upcoming topic regarding worker voice and good quality jobs in the context of changing forms of work. The second is something we're really excited about, which is a simulated negotiation over the future social contract at work, something that you will be participating in next week, and which really brings all of the ideas and this course together in a very concrete way. So this week, we're going to get you set up for that negotiation. But first, our focus on worker voice and advocacy. So last week, we heard from a number of individuals about new arrangements and forms of work, whether it be new patterns of j...