Hello everyone, welcome and thank you for sitting in my name is Audrey Stewart and on behalf of Harvard Bookstore im so please welcome you to todays writing forum with juliet schor discussing her book after the gig. She joined today in conversation by veena do fall. Shes a professor at sociology at Boston College and also a member of the Macarthur Foundation research network. She has written and edited many books on the economy and sustainability including sustainable lifestyles and the quest for pleasant. Shes a former guggenheim fellow and has won multiple awardsfor her work and research. She has joined today by veena dupal, her work has been cited by the California Court and her writing has been published in the la times and slate. She is currently workingon a book. Today they are discussing after the gig, based on a decade of Meticulous Research , this new book discusses the sharing economy, what it is, what it could have been and what it could still be. Ill leave you with this quo
Member of the Macarthur Foundation research network. She has written and edited many books on the economy and sustainability including the quest for plenty. She is a fellow guggenheim fellow who has won multiple awards for her research. She joined by a professor of law at the university of california hastings. Her work has been cited by the California Supreme Court and her writing has published in the guardian, shes currently working on a book. They are discussing after the gig based on meticulous research. And i believe you with a quote. And their intensive research. The sharing economy feels like what it participants and their ability, the rest of us make complete sense of the data. They provide a workable plan for how to fulfill the promise of gig work as part of the useful, fair economy. This book will redefine the deal and on that note. I will now go to our speaker, juliet schor. Im deeply honored to be in this conversation, you are just heard for the introduction but it was not a
Thank you all for joining us this evening im maria one of the event coordinators here at the bookstore and i have the pleasure of introducing kevin this evening. A quick reminder to silence your cell phone if you havent yet and encouragement to check out our kartd of events at the bookstore and we have pam net of our march and april events on table bit popcorn. We have a wonderfully full calendar and authors coming up including this evening kevin davis is awardwinning journalist and former Crime Reporter work appeared in u. S. Today and the reader and other publication author of the wrong man, defending the dam ited, and most recently the brain defense murder in manhattan, and dawn of neuroscience in Americas Courtroom which has been praised in countless glowing reviews. Wall street journal hailed as excellent and review called it thoroughly researched clearly presented and engaged and explore the. It is a story of connections, between science and law between psychology and justice. Be
Dr. Delucic is a arent sentte operate at Johns Hopkins university. She uses research to inflameol education, housing policy, and the s ways was paired to study residential mobility, neighborhoods and family life among poor families in the south. Is currently working on a study the effect of baltimore housing programs on longterm neighborhood education and equality. She contributes regularly to the national and local media, including the baltimore sun, washington post, education week, atlantic, new yorker, and the National Public radio. Dr. Delucas work has been published in several academic journals and has an exhibit at the National Museum of american history. She was appointed to the Macarthur Foundation Research Network on the effects of housing on Young Children as a fellow at the century foundation. And as a member of the policy Advisory Board at the reinvestment fund. Dr. Deluca earned her ph. D in Human Development and social policy at northwestern university, and bachelors degr