Undergraduate Consortium

As the Covid-19 crisis forced a reckoning about who is truly “essential” in our economies, employee voices have reverberated from Silicon Valley to the factory floor. Workers are eager to contribute their insight and knowledge—and co-create corporations in which they feel valued. What are students learning now about the relationship between labor and management? What would need to be true about their education so that they might recognize the possibility that fostering worker voice and including workers at the table can make corporate leadership—and our current version of capitalism—better?

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This convening and its theme were in part an outcome of an ongoing collaboration, supported by the Teagle Foundation, between Franklin & Marshall, Bucknell University, and the University of Pennsylvania—aimed at exploring how liberal arts content, skills, and pedagogies can illuminate the study of business and commerce.