$70,000
Bringing Worker Voice into the Development, Design, and Use of AI: A Case Study of the Labor Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente
2025
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Thomas Kochan
George Maverick Bunker Professor, Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Thomas A. Kochan is the George M. Bunker Professor Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Institute for Work and Employment Research. He focuses on the need to update work and employment policies, institutions, and practices to catch up with a changing workforce and economy.
His most recent book is Shaping the Future of Work:Â A Handbook for Action and a New Social Contract (Routledge, 2021). Kochan received his Ph.D. in industrial relations from the University of Wisconsin.
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Thomas Kochan’s Working Papers
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How U.S. Workers Think About Workplace Democracy: The Structure of Individual Worker Preferences for Labor Representation (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers AUG 28, 2019
By: Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, William Kimball, Thomas Kochan
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
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