I am most pleased to present the second part of the symposium on the The Thought of Work in this issue’s Perspectives section. The first part of this symposium was published in the December 2012 issue of the journal. It included three essays written by Professor Marion Crain, the Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law at the Washington University School of Law; Dr. Tim Strangleman, Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent (United Kingdom); and Dr. Charles Whalen, principal analyst in the Macroeconomic Analysis Division of the Congressional Budget Office in response to Dr. John W. Budd’s recently-published volume, The Thought of Work. In this issue, Dr. Budd, the Industrial Relations Land Grant Chair in the Department of Work and Organizations at the University of Minnesota, responds to these three essays while further reflecting and elaborating on a number of ideas first presented in his ground-breaking book.

If any of the readers of this symposium are interested in commenting on this symposium in the journal’s pages, please do not hesitate to contact me. Other symposiums on important employment relations topics are planned for future issues of the Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal. If any of the journal’s readers have suggestions for symposiums on specific topics, please do not hesitate to contact me. I hope that you enjoy the second part of this symposium and find it most illuminating.