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Foreword /Peter Georgescu --Introduction: Achieving the Promise of Work /Peter A. Creticos --The Impact of Bias and Structural Inequality on Work.1. Preparing for the Future of Work in Regions and Cities /Jonathan Barr and Karen E. Maguire --Gender and the U.S. Labor Market: Change and Continuity /Ruth Milkman --The Futures of Work and People with Disabilities /Susanne M. Bruyère --Are Immigrants Underskilled, or Are Their Jobs Underskilled? /Rob Paral --Structural Racism and Stratification: Understanding Racial Inequality in the American Workforce /Patrick L. Mason --Rising Economic Inequality: The Elephant in the Room.What's behind the Increase in Wage Inequality? /Eileen Appelbaum --The Investment Triad and Sustainable Prosperity /William Lazonick --Intersections and Barriers: Economic Justice and the Futures of Work in our Hemisphere /Oscar A. Chacón and Amy Shannon --The Platform Economy and Gig Workers: Expectations, Challenges, and Opportunities.The Original Gig Economy /James Bau Graves --Vorsprung durch Technik: The Future of Work, Digital Technology, and the Platform Economy /Chris Warhurst, Chris Mathieu, and Sally Wright --Entrpreneurial Finance in the Platform Economy Era: What Consequences for Labor? /Martin Kenney and John Zysman --The Role of Labor Activism in the 21st Century.One Fair Wage: The Only Just Way Forward /Saru Jayaraman and Devan Shea --Hatching Labor's Phoenix: Sparking Mass Union Organizing in the United States /Stephen Herzenberg --New Frontiers of Worker Power: Challenges and Opportunities in the Modern Economy /Michelle Miller and Eric Harris Bernstein --Paths to the Future.Bending Futures and Meanings of Work, Careers, and Life-Course Pathways /Phyllis Moen --Commonwealth Companies: A Path to Restore Workers' Rights and Economic Democracy /Tom Croft and Annie Malhotra --Property not Pay: Restoring the Middle through Ownership /Christopher Mackin -- An Authentic 'Right to Work' /William A. Darity Jr. and Darrick Hamilton --Conclusion: Moving From the "Many Futures of Work" to "Achieving the Promise of Work" /Peter A. Creticos.