The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century

The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century

Tom Juravich (Sociology and Labor Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Friday, May 6 / 1:00 PM
HSSB 4041

Juravich is a labor educator and musician. He is the author of Chaos on the Shop Floor: A Worker’s View of Quality, Productivity and Management (1985); an ethnography of a bitter labor struggle in West Virginia, Ravenswood: The Steelworkers’ Victory and the Revival of American Labor, with Kate Bronfenbrenner, (1999); and At the Altar of the Bottom Line: The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century (2009).

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy.