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The Future of Work in Massachusetts.
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Work is rapidly changing

Workers across virtually all sectors of the economy are facing work reorganization, new technology, and the intensification of work.

With globalization, employers are increasingly becoming part of large multinational companies and Massachusetts’ workers are now forced to compete on a world stage.

Long-term, stable jobs are disappearing as work has become more temporary, part-time, and contingent.

The workforce itself is changing in Massachusetts and many of these new workers find themselves on the front lines of workplace change.

How are Massachusetts workers fighting to hold onto dignity and pride at work to build job and income security, and have a say in their future?

What is the future of work?

A Joint Project of the Labor Centers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, and Lowell.

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