by Amy E. Slaton | Apr 29, 2013 | Higher Ed, Job Creation, Media
Big Data, it seems, is suddenly very big. Among the social scientists with whom I spend time, newly massive, deep-tissue-massaged bodies of data have found currency. As a research tool, the emergent technique seems to promise a rehabilitation of conventional,...
by Amy E. Slaton | Dec 1, 2012 | Higher Ed, Job Creation, Media
Edie Fraser, meet Adam Davidson. Fraser, an expert on human resource issues in STEM-dependent industries, is the author of “The Root of Real Jobs: Filling the STEM Talent Gap.” This piece appeared in the Huffington Post the other day and can best be...
by Amy E. Slaton | Nov 20, 2012 | Media, Science Studies
Prepare to aggregate the phenomena. Normally I would be cautious about doing this, but something about the recent presidential campaign and the widespread support for Romney’s barely disguised loyalties to class and race (see below), urges me on. Historian of...
by Amy E. Slaton | Nov 17, 2012 | Higher Ed, Job Creation, Media, Policy
Itching to know which ideas about the economy actually solidified during the recent campaign season? Which ones Obama toted, intact, through the onslaught of right-wing rants about the 47% (according to Romney, people who remain jobless because lazy…or, shiftless AND...
by Amy E. Slaton | Jul 13, 2012 | Higher Ed, Media
Give me some credit: For some months now I have successfully resisted the impulse to respond to David Brooks’ conservative writings about economic opportunity in America. His logic is so extraordinarily selective that any critique of his arguments felt like hitting...
by Amy E. Slaton | Jul 2, 2012 | Media, Policy
A surprising couple of weeks for public discourse on the role of work in our lives…. I wouldn’t have thought that so many people had so many strong opinions about women and work (which of course means, about ALL of us and work), and I’m glad to see...
