About the Project

Open Society Foundations' U.S. Programs has initiated a year-long, collaborative inquiry concerning the future of work. We are bringing together a cross-disciplinary and diverse group of thinkers to address some of the biggest questions about how work is transforming and what work will look like 20-30 years from now. We also aim to address, through original research and conversations, and a synthesis of existing data, how the transformation of work, jobs, and income will affect the most vulnerable among us, and what we all might do to alter the course of events for the better.
 

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The End of Jobs as We Know Them?

 

Technology, Society & The Future of Work

When

  • Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Where

  • Open Society Foundations, 224 W. 57th St, New York, NY

Time

  • 12pm - 5:30 pm, Lunch will be served

Project Information

A Brief History of 'The Job'

  • Dorian Warren, Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Columbia University


The Transformation of Work: Drivers of Disruption

  • Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Deputy Executive Director, US Programs, Open Society Foundations
  • Andrew L. Stern, Ronald O. Perelman Senior Fellow, Columbia Business School


Emerging Models: The under-estimated contingent work-force, and emerging new models of work and income.

  • Carl Camden, President and CEO, Kelly Services
  • Saket Soni, Exectuve Director, National Guestworker Alliance
  • Althea Erickson, Advocacy and Policy Director, Etsy


The Oxford Study: Technology's Radical Impact on Industries and the Number of Jobs in the U.S.

  • Carl Benedikt Frey, James Martin Fellow, Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology


We've Been Here Before: Technology's promise and impact on work in the 20th Century - who benefited and who didn't

  • Bethany Moreton, Associate Professor of History, University of Georgia
  • Dorian Warren, Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Columbia University