| Thursday, January 26
First day of class.
"Call to Create Jobs, or Else, Tests Trump's Sway" (New York Times, January 23, 2017).
WORK & PRECARITY
Tuesday, January 31
Sweet & Meiskins, Changing Contours of Work, chaps. 1 and 3.
Thursday, February 2
Hill, Steven. 2015. "Robots and Techno Sapiens are Coming for Your Job." Pp. 139-161 in Raw Deal. New York: St. Martin's.
Autor, David H. and David Dorn. 2013. "How Technology Wrecks the Middle Class." New York Times, August 24.
Sweet & Meiskins, Changing Contours of Work, chap. 4.
America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2012.
The Founder: A Dystopian Business Simulator.
Lubben, Alex. 2016. "The Founder's Dilemma." The Awl, January 30.
THEORIZING THE NEW ECONOMY
Tuesday, February 7
Bell, Daniel. 1999. Pp. ix-xx, xxxii-li, lxi-lxix, 112-119, 123-142, 212-262, 374-378 in The Coming of Post-Industrial-Society, Special Anniversary Ed. New York: Basic Books.
Engine vs. Motherboard.
Situses: location of occupational activities.
U.S. science and engineering workforce growth since 1960.
Science & Engineering Indicators 2014.
Thursday, February 9
Class cancelled: snow day.
Kumar, Krishan. 2005. "Fordism and Post-Fordism." Pp. 61-89 in From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Sweet & Meiskins, Changing Contours of Work, chap. 2.
Ford Company: 100 Years of the Moving Assembly Line.
Vertical integration.
ZOOM Drive-Thru Timer System.
Vintage Views of IBM people.
Fordism vs. Post-Fordism.
The Toyota Production System.
Tuesday, February 14
THE SILICON VALLEY PARADIGM
Thursday, February 16
First take-home exam due.
Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class, chaps. 1-5.
Tuesday, February 21
"The New Workplace Is Agile, and Nonstop. Can You Keep Up?" New York Times, November 25, 2016.
Anna Wiener, "Uncanny Valley," n+1, April 2016.
"Start-Ups Embrace Arbitration to Settle Workplace Disputes," New York Times, May 14, 2016.
Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class, chaps. 6, 8-9.
Thursday, February 23
"Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace," New York Times, August 15, 2015.
"Jeff Bezos and Amazon Employees Join Debate Over Its Culture," New York Times, August 17, 2015.
"Work Policies May Be Kinder, but Brutal Competition Isn’t," New York Times, August 17, 2015.
"Was Portrayal of Amazon’s Brutal Workplace On Target?," New York Times, August 18, 2015.
"How Amazon's Long Game Yielded a Retail Juggernaut," New York Times, November 18, 2015.
"Amazon's Bezos becomes world's fourth-richest man," USA Today, November 11, 2015.
EMBEDDING WORK INTO PRIVATE LIFE
Tuesday, February 28
"Why Women Quit Working: It’s Not for the Reasons Men Do," New York Times, January 2017.
"For one group of women, the gender wage gap keeps getting worse," Washington Post, April 28, 2016.
Anne-Marie Slaughter, "A Toxic Work World," New York Times, September 20, 2015.
Andrew Moravcsik (a.k.a. Anne-Marie Slaughter's husband), "Why I Put My Wife’s Career First," The Atlantic, October 2015.
Sweet & Meiskins, Changing Contours of Work, chap. 6.
Thursday, March 2
Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class, chap. 7.
Sweet & Meiskins, Changing Contours of Work, chap. 5.
Tuesday, March 7
Second take-home exam due.
PRODUCING TOMORROW'S LABORFORCE
Thursday, March 9
"A Secret of Many Urban 20-Somethings: Their Parents Help With the Rent" (New York Times, February 9, 2017.
Perlin, Ross. 2012. Pp. 23-41, 123-144 in Intern Nation. New York: Verso.
Tuesday, March 28
"Wanted: Factory Workers, Degree Required," New York Times, January 30, 2017.
Newman & Winston, Reskilling America.
LOCATING THE NEW ECONOMY
Thursday, March 30
Joseph Parilla, "Invention, Place and Economic Inclusion," Brookings Institute, October 20, 2016.
Tuesday, April 4
Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class, chaps. 10-15.
A CRITIQUE OF CREATIVITY
Thursday, April 6
UK Minister for Digital and Culture Creative Industries speech, September 9, 2016.
Stephen Pritchard, "Hipsters and artists are the gentrifying foot soldiers of capitalism," The Guardian, September 13, 2016.
McRobbie, Angela. 2016. Pp. 17-32 in Be Creative. Cambridge, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
Tuesday, April 11
Interview assignment due.
THE SHARING ECONOMY
Thursday, April 13
Steven Greenhouse "The Whatchamacallit Economy," New York Times, December 16, 2016.
McKinsey Global Institute, "Independent Work: Choice, Necessity, and the Gig Economy," October 2016.
"Why the Gig Economy May Not Put a Dent in Income Inequality," Wall Street Journal, May 3, 2016.
"This App Is Like Uber but for 'Happy Givers'," Vice, November 25, 2016.
Tuesday, April 18
Chase, Peers, Inc., Introduction, chaps. 1-5.
Thursday, April 20
Chase, Peers, Inc., pp. 99-126, chap. 7, 185-192, chap. 10.
Tuesday, April 25
Hall, The Uberfication of the University.
Thursday, April 27
In-class work on team presentation.
Tuesday, May 2
Give team presentations in class.
Thursday, May 4
Read other teams' essays.
Student rankings of team presentations due.
Tuesday, May 9
Individual briefs on team presentations due.
Tuesday, May 16 (study period)
Third take-home exam due.
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