Monday, March 2: Public Lecture by Dr. Louis Hyman, "Silicon Valley and the Rise of Insecure Work"

On Monday, March 2, Dr. Louis Hyman will present, "Silicon Valley and the Rise of Insecure Work."Louis Hyman is a historian of work and business at the ILR School of Cornell University, where he also directs the Institute for Workplace Studies in New York City. He has published two books on the history of personal debt (Debtor Nation and Borrow) and a history of how American work became so insecure (Temp). He is a founding editor of the Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism book series from Columbia University Press, and the director of the History of Capitalism Summer Camp.This Department of American Studies  lecture is free and open to the public. Please join us Monday at 4 pm in BUR 214.