40830 - Reimagining and Fostering the Dignity of Working People

Description

Post-covid, the lives of workers have transformed rapidly, with the increased dualization of labor market, which have come with not only more AI/high tech, gig and remote jobs, but also growing insecurity, isolation, and alienation. How can work support meaningful lives under these conditions? How can workers find recognition at work? Should they? How can the public, private and non-profit sectors intervene? Drawing on their empirical research, participants discuss how to reimagine and foster the dignity of working people across the class divide in this rapidly changing landscape.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Session

Presider

• Nicolas Duvoux, University of Geneva

Individual Presentations

• How Women Living on the Margin Sustain Dignity: An Inquiry through Empirical Poetry - Monica C. Bell, Yale University

• Dignity and Spatial Inequality across America - Kathryn J. Edin, Princeton University

• Is Dignity found through work, or despite it? - Matthew Andersson, Baylor University; Steven Hitlin, University of Iowa

• AI and Dignity at Work - Allison Pugh, Johns Hopkins University

• Insecurity and dignity across national contexts - Lorenza Antonucci, University Of Birmingham; Elena Ayala-Hurtado, Princeton University

Discussant

• Nicolas Duvoux, University of Geneva

Session Organizer

• Michèle Lamont, Harvard University