Workshop Schedule
February 1
Richard Sennett, NYU and LSE (Sociology)
The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
February 22
David Trubek, University of Wisconsin (Global Studies)
Transnational regulation of industrial relations in a global economy
March 1
Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY (Sociology)
From the Ashes of the Old and The Jobless Future
March 8
Barry Bluestone, UMass-Boston (Public Policy)
Boston labor market; macroeconomic consequences of an increase in the time people spend at work
March 22
Jerry Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania (Sociology)
Shifts in time spent at work, as influenced by gender and level of employment
March 29
Jacqueline Jones, Brandeis University (History)
American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor
April 5
Katherine Silbaugh, Boston University (Law)
Valuing household labor in economic terms (“commodification”) as a strategy to address the household work/wage work divide
April 12
Carol Stack, University of California at Berkeley (Anthropology)
Coming of Age in Oakland
April 19
Paul Miller, EEOC Commissioner
How the experience of disability and the Americans with Disabilities Act change our approach to employment discrimination
April 26
Judith Gueron, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (Social policy research)
Evaluating welfare-to-work programs
May 3
Susan Sturm, University of Pennsylvania (Law)
Creating a new legal paradigm for regulating the workplace of the 21st century