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Shaping the Future of Work (15.662x)

Subjects: Economics · Management

Art: Gaston, John, (John Gaston merchant ledger) - DPLA -…, 1773 · Public domain

Instructor
Prof. Thomas A. Kochan
Term
Spring 2016
Level
Graduate
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50 videos · 1 reading · 58 other files · 71 web pages
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Source: MIT OpenCourseWare RES.15-003 Shaping the Future of Work (15.662x), Spring 2016, Prof. Thomas A. Kochan — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own units, each a lecture sequence in MIT's listing order; no single course-wide order across units is claimed. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.

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  1. Assignments0 activities · lecture sequence, in MIT's listing order
  2. Week 1: Introduction: Challenges and Opportunities14 activities · lecture sequence, in MIT's listing order
  3. Week 2: The Old Social Contract6 activities · lecture sequence, in MIT's listing order
  4. Week 3: Innovations in the 1980s and Beyond13 activities · lecture sequence, in MIT's listing order
  5. Week 4: New Emerging Models8 activities · lecture sequence, in MIT's listing order
  6. Week 5: The Worker Voice and Advocacy5 activities · lecture sequence, in MIT's listing order
  7. Week 6: The Social Contract Negotiation Exercise2 activities · lecture sequence, in MIT's listing order
  8. Week 7: Student Reports on Their Plans for Action1 activities · lecture sequence, in MIT's listing order

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4 files

1 video

45 video transcripts
11 images

MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Thomas A. Kochan, RES.15-003 Shaping the Future of Work (15.662x), Spring 2016.

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