ABSTRACT
This chapter presents ideas from the next-generation labor force—students in our classes at MIT and Cornell. We describe a classroom exercise in which students representing business, labor, educators, and government collaborated to create a new social contract for labor. The priorities that emerged from this exercise are consistent with the results of a survey that JUST Capital conducted on what issues workers think are most important at work. We present research-based findings about specific actions that each of the four stakeholder groups—workers, educators, employers, and government leaders—can take to make a new social contract for labor a reality.
