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Topic(s):  Work and Meaning, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Labor & Industrial Relations

Book(s): Mill Town : Reckoning with What Remains, American Made : What Happens to People When Work Disappears, and On the Job : The Untold Story of America’s Work Centers and the New Fight for Wages, Dignity, and Health

Format: A 45-minute live, virtual conversation, with audience Q&A

Moderator: DAVID A. GRAHAM, staff writer at the Atlantic

Farah Stockman joined the New York Times editorial board in 2020 after covering politics, social movements, and race for the national desk. She previously spent sixteen years at the Boston Globe, nearly half of that time as the paper’s foreign policy reporter in Washington, D.C. She has reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, South Sudan, Rwanda, and Guantánamo Bay. She also served as a columnist and an editorial board member at the Globe. In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize for a series of columns about the efforts to desegregate Boston’s schools. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but also spends time in Michigan.

Celeste Monforton is director of the Beyond OSHA Project and lecturer at Texas State University. A sought-after national media commentator, she is the co-author (with Jane M. Von Bergen) of On the Job (The New Press) and lives in San Marcos, Texas.

Jane M. Von Bergen is an award-winning reporter who covered labor for more than half of her thirty-five years at the Philadelphia Inquirer. The co-author (with Celeste Monforton) of On the Job (The New Press), she lives in Philadelphia.