Background on CyberWork
Cyberwork and the American Dream examines the history of technology and future of work and provides a historical framework for understanding the process of “creative destruction” that defined the steam, electrical, and computer revolutions, sparking both turmoil and reform.
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
A World Without Work (Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 2015-July/Aug)
A job is a job is a job? Of course not. Let’s stop pretending.
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
The story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don’t even think exists—from a leading national poverty expert who “defies convention.” (The New York Times)
Jessica Compton’s family of four would have no income if she didn’t donate plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter, Brianna, in Chicago, often have no food but spoiled milk on weekends.