Events #2: Technology and Globalization Panel at Rider University in Central NJ

 

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Globalization

 

Global Shifts/Digital Lives:

The Future of Work and Labor in

America

 

Bart Luedeke Center Theater,

Rider

University

, Lawrenceville

Wednesday, April 9, 2008 @ 7 PM

♦

Chair and Discussant:  

Dr.

Lynn

Rivas

, Department of Sociology,

Rider

University

Panelists:

♦ HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE AMERICAN WORKPLACE:

WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW  CAN HURT YOU

Dr. Lewis Maltby, President, Workrights Institute,

Princeton

,

NJ

 

♦ YOUR JOB IS BEING OUTSOURCED. SHOULD YOU WORRY?

  

Dr.

Ali

Mir

, Associate Professor of Business at

William Patterson University

,

NJ

 

♦ THE END OF WORKER AUTONOMY: DIGITIAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE 

 

NEW YORK CITY

TAXI INDUSTRY

   

Dr.

Biju

Mathew

, Associate Professor of Information Systems,

Rider University

,

NJ

 

v From three unique perspectives,

Dr.

Lew

Maltby

,

Prof.

Ali

Mir

and

Prof.

Biju

Mathew

will examine the trajectories created by the infusion of digital technologies and the re-ordering of the political economy on the work lives of ordinary Americans.

v Together they will address questions around the future of the American worker, the shape of the US Labor market, the emergent legal and policy needs to protect the American worker and the ethical questions we are going to face on the value of work itself.

 

For Directions to this free presentation:  http://www.rider.edu/directions. For more info: mathew@rider.edu