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

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge 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 of sociology at New York University. She works on topics related to healthcare, culture, markets, and organizations. Altomonte 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. You can read articles from this project in the American Sociological Review, Theory and Society, and Social Science & Medicine. She is also conducting research on the new economy of health sharing platforms using interviews and digital ethnography.
Altomonte received her PhD in 2020 from The New School for Social Research; previously she worked as a journalist in Chile, where she grew up.

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.