Join the Center for Global Work and Employment (CGWE) on Thursday, July 13 and Friday, July 14 from 9:30-11:30am to celebrate the culmination of the first Global Future of Workers (FOWers) Initiative! Fellows from India, Malawi, the Philippines, Spain, Canada, and the U.S. will introduce themselves and share their research over the course of two morning sessions, concluding on Friday with a group discussion on future directions for the FOWers discourse. Coffee and pastries will be provided!
Pictured is FOWers fellow Paliani Chinguwo, PhD student at University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, doing fieldwork at Mulanje District Hospital in his home country of Malawi.
Learn more about the Global FOWers Initiative and FOWers fellows.
Registration link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMscuCrpjkqEtf5mjz6l32W08NMo_Nw0sYq
About the Global FOWers Initiative
The Global Future of Workers Initiative is an interdisciplinary global forum of exchange and personal-professional connection for PhD students, by PhD students. The motivation for the initiative stems particularly from a collective interest in interrogating and ultimately reframing the now ubiquitous “Future of Work” (FoW) discourse. As the FoW discourse has matured, scholars, practitioners, and policymakers have increasingly questioned its parameters, assumptions, and scope, uncovering crucial blind spots in what has become an overly narrow debate characterized by technological and market determinism.
This initiative has sought both to promote a more inclusive discourse by centering workers’ perspectives and to democratize access to it so that a greater diversity of scholars may shape it. We have brought together a global community of PhD students across five continents that collectively put the interests of working people at the heart of their research. Our vision is to build a network of young scholars that together can inform and expand the future of workers discourse within the academy and greater society.
