Book Talk | Allison Pugh | The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Past and Future of Work Working Group on October 16th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Allison Pugh. She will discuss her new book The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World with Gullermina Altomonte and Mona Sloane.

Allison Pugh is a professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity and Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture. Her writing has appeared in leading publications such as The New Yorker, the New York Times, and the New Republic.

Guillermina Altomonte is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at New York University. Her research examines how cultural and material forces shape markets of care, with a focus on what care work can tell us about contemporary transformations and experiences of labor. She is currently writing a book about how the value of independence defines expectations for aging and the organization of elder care in the United States. She is also conducting research on the new economy of health sharing platforms using interviews and digital ethnography.

Mona Sloane, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Data Science and Media Studies at the University of Virginia (UVA). As a sociologist, she studies the intersection of technology and society, specifically in the context of AI design, use, and policy. She also convenes the Co-Opting AI series and serves as the editor of the Co-Opting AI book series at the University of California Press as well as the Technology Editor for Public Books. At UVA, Mona runs Sloane Lab which conducts empirical research on the implications of technology for the organization of social life.