Why do Americans both celebrate work and continually strive to eliminate it? Have American attitudes toward paid employment changed over time? What makes work
meaningful, dignified, and socially useful? Do Americans work too much? Joanne Ciulla, author of The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work, is Professor of Leadership and Ethics at the University of Richmond. Richard Rodriguez is an award-winning PBS television essayist, culture critic, and author, most recently, of Brown: The Last Discovery of America. Debra Satz (moderator) is an Associate Professor of Philosphy and directs the Ethics in Society Program at Stanford. For more info visit auroraforum.org. Free and open to the public. Location: Kresge Auditorium, Stanford University.
Added by etterman on January 7, 2004