MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Anna Stansbury is the first-prize winner of the Upjohn Institute’s 2021 Dissertation Awards.

Significant portions of the professional papers donated to the MIT Libraries’ by former MIT ombudsperson Mary P. Rowe (pictured above) have now been digitized, making material about her pioneering work as an ombuds more available to researchers.

Career ladders within organizations are often seen as one way to create opportunities for low-wage workers to move into better-paying jobs. But, in practice, how common is it for low-wage workers in the U.S. to benefit economically from moving to a new job within the same organization?

Three MIT students who took the USA Lab class this past spring say their team project exploring the effects of the pandemic on immigrants in northeast Iowa was an experience they will not soon forget.

MIT Sloan Professor Paul Osterman explains the importance of developing industry-specific strategies to improve the jobs of low-wage workers.

CAN WE FIND THE EMPLOYMENT HIGH ROAD IN LOW-WAGE INDUSTRIES?

Involving Workers In Technological Change

The Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at MIT Sloan asked Elisabeth B. Reynolds, the Executive Director of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future and one of the authors of that Task Force's recent report, to summarize some of the report's most important points.