Journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell will discuss her book The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change, in conversation with Professor David Mindell (co-chair, MIT Work of the Future Task Force and founder & CEO of Humatics).
From Amazon.com description: “Through exhaustive reporting and keen analysis, The Job reveals the startling truths and unveils the pervasive myths that have colored our thinking on one of the most urgent issues of our day: how to build good work in a globalized and digitalized world where middle class jobs seem to be slipping away…The book’s four sections take us from the challenges we face in scoring a good job today to work’s infinite possibilities in the future. Work, in all its richness, complexity, rewards and pain, is essential for people to flourish. Ellen Ruppel Shell paints a compelling portrait of where we stand today, and points to a promising and hopeful way forward.”