<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Colleagues,<br></div><div>The APLA reading group continues with my book, <i>The Pandemic Workplace</i>. We will all chat on Friday, April 4th from 12-1 pm <b>east coast time</b>.<br><br>I am suggesting the introduction and a very short conclusion (that discusses Trump's appeal). Please read as much as you can, but do feel free to join us even if you haven't managed to read everything. <br><br><div>Introduction:</div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q4LtQg07uHHSG3fPVqmOHGThs0EA2rJS/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q4LtQg07uHHSG3fPVqmOHGThs0EA2rJS/view?usp=sharing</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Conclusion: </div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZjeFc6TjYbKfUMZvpFGyoaVAJfFc-jgM/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZjeFc6TjYbKfUMZvpFGyoaVAJfFc-jgM/view?usp=sharing</a><br><br></div><div>The meeting will be 12-1 pm EST Friday, April 4th and can be reached by clicking on this Zoom link:<br><br><a href="https://iu.zoom.us/j/94049124398" target="_blank">https://iu.zoom.us/j/94049124398</a><br><br>Looking forward to seeing you all virtually,<br><br>Ilana</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Press blurb: <span style="color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:"Source Serif Pro","Times New Roman","serif";font-size:18px;font-weight:bolder">A provocative book arguing that the workplace is where we can learn to live democratically (or not).</span></div><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:"Source Serif Pro","Times New Roman","serif";font-size:18px"><span style="color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:"Source Serif Pro","Times New Roman","serif";font-size:18px">In </span><i style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:"Source Serif Pro","Times New Roman","serif";font-size:18px">The Pandemic Workplace</i><span style="color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:"Source Serif Pro","Times New Roman","serif";font-size:18px">, anthropologist Ilana Gershon turns her attention to the US workplace and how it changed—and changed us—during the pandemic. She argues that the unprecedented organizational challenges of the pandemic forced us to radically reexamine our attitudes about work and to think more deeply about how values clash in the workplace. These changes also led us as workers to engage more with the contracts that bind us as we rethought when and how we allow others to tell us what to do.</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:"Source Serif Pro","Times New Roman","serif";font-size:18px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:"Source Serif Pro","Times New Roman","serif";font-size:18px"><span style="color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:"Source Serif Pro","Times New Roman","serif";font-size:18px">Based on over two hundred interviews, Gershon’s book reveals how negotiating these tensions during the pandemic made the workplace into a laboratory for democratic living—the key place where Americans are learning how to develop effective political strategies and think about the common good. Exploring the explicit and unspoken ways we are governed (and govern others) at work, this accessible book shows how the workplace teaches us to be democratic citizens.</span><br></div>
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