Dear RSF:
Please join us next Wednesday, January 24th, at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Researcher Paul Osterman entitled “Spare Parts: The Deconstruction of Work.”
Osterman is Nanyang Technological University Professor Human Resources and Management, and Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. He holds a dual PhD in Economics and Urban Studies and Planning from MIT. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including 2017’s Who Will Care for Us: Long Term Care and the and the Long Term Care Workforce (Russell Sage).
At RSF he is working on a new book which discusses freelance and contract work, and seeks to broaden the discussion to include how people relate to organizations. The key theme running through the book will be changing relationships between employees and organizations; departing from the popular perception that links between employees and employers have broken rather than altered. Osterman uses the Current Population Survey’s tenure supplement and the PSID to obtain national patterns for organizational attachment.