IWER
IWER Research Seminar Series
The MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research hosts a weekly Tuesday seminar during the academic year. One of the longest-running seminar series at MIT, it draws faculty and doctoral students from across the Institute and the wider academic community. Seminars are held on Tuesday afternoons from 1 to 2:30 p.m; contact iwer@mit.edu for more information.
Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) Fall 2024 Seminars
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September 10, 2024
Christopher Knittel, MIT Sloan, "Assessing the distribution of employment vulnerability to the energy transition using employment carbon footprints"
Commentary by Christine Walley (MIT Anthropology), Paul Osterman (MIT Sloan), and Namrata Kala (MIT Sloan) -
September 17, 2024
Lindsey Cameron, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, "Hidden Scaffolds: People as Infrastructure in Global Platform Work"
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September 24, 2024
Kathleen McGinn, Harvard Business School, "Contesting Women at Work: 45 years of Narrative and Counternarrative regarding Sexual Harassment"
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October 1, 2024
Vanessa Conzon, Boston College, "Advantaging White Men: How Play Sustains Gender and Racial Inequality in Organizations" (held jointly with the Economic Sociology Seminar)
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October 8, 2024
K. MacKenzie Scott, MIT Sloan, "Owning worker power: On motives in a workers' cooperative"
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October 15, 2024
NO SEMINAR
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October 22, 2024
NO SEMINAR
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October 29, 2024
Julia Melin, Dartmouth College, TBA (held jointly with the Economic Sociology Seminar)
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November 5, 2024
Kwelina Thompson, MIT Sloan, TBA (held jointly with the Economic Sociology Seminar)
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November 12, 2024
Jonathan Mijs, Boston University, "Why unequal countries stay that way: Lessons learned about the social life of inequality" (held jointly with the Economic Sociology Seminar)
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November 19, 2024
Sydnee Caldwell, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, TBA
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November 26, 2024
NO SEMINAR
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December 3, 2024
Summer Jackson, Harvard Business School, TBA
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December 10, 2024
Susan Silbey, MIT Sloan, TBA (held jointly with the Economic Sociology Seminar)