------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 09:35:56 -0800 From: "James I. Davis" Subject: File 7--Technology & Employment Conf, 1/21-22, Cambridge, MA ****************************************************************** WHERE HAVE THE JOBS GONE? WHERE WILL THEY BE? AN MIT CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY AND EMPLOYMENT Sponsored by the Technology and Culture Seminar of the MIT Community Fellows Program Friday, January 21 and Saturday, January 22 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Building 6, MIT, Cambridge, MA New England is a world center of the current technological transformation, in which computers, electronics and genetics are opening new modes of production and communication. In the midst of this technological revolution, tens of thousands of people have been laid off from high tech industries. These newly unemployed include both highly-trained workers and new entrants into the workforce. This conference will examine the factors underlying this disturbing trend, and identify directions needed to insure that increases in productivity raise the standard of living of all members of society. ------------------------------------------------------------------ PLENARY SESSIONS: THE IMPACT OF THE HIGH TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION ON PRODUCTIVITY Friday, 9:00 am Ken Reeves, Mayor, City of Cambridge Prof. Jon King, MIT Prof. Tom Kochan, MIT Sloan School Prof. Helen Shapiro, Harvard Business School David Arian, President, International Longshoremen and Warehouseman's Union THE IMPACT OF THE HIGH TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION ON JOBS Friday, 4:00 pm Juliet Schor, Director, Women's Studies Program, Harvard Richard Barnet, Institute of Policy Studies General Baker, National Organizing Committee of the Unemployed, Detroit HOW TO INSURE THAT THE NEW TECHNOLOGY RAISES THE GENERAL STANDARD OF LIVING Saturday, 9:00 am Prof. Sarah Kuhn, Policy and Planning, UMASS-Lowell Prof. Abdul Alkalimat, African-American Studies, Northeastern University Prof. Noam Chomsky, MIT David Feickert, European Trade Union Conference WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE: JOB CREATION Saturday, 1:30 pm Prof. Mel King, Director, Community Fellows Program, MIT Prof. Elaine Bernard, Director, Trade Union Program, Harvard John LaRose, Oilfield Workers' Union, Trinidad ------------------------------------------------------------------ WORKSHOPS FRIDAY 11:00 AM Changing Production technologies The Engineer's Role The Impact of Information on Industrial Production Cleaner and Safer Production Technologies Shop Floor Initiatives The Internationalization of Production: NAFTA Moving Plants Abroad Corporate Strategies NAFTA and the Trade Unions The European Situation The Telecommunications Revolution The National Information Infrastructure Insuring Public Access Employment Impacts The Biotechnology Industry Projected Growth Impact on Pharmaceuticals Unfulfilled Promises FRIDAY 2:00 PM Entering the High Tech Job Market The High-Tech Job Market A Students View High Tech Skills for the Disenfranchised The Electronic Office The Automated Office Undervalued Technical Work Electronic Surveillance The Changing Reality of Computer Industry Jobs Part-time Work Closing Doors to Minority Youth Coping with Layoffs High Tech Peace Corps? Converting from Military to Civilian Research and Development Civilian R&D in the Post Cold War Period Prospects at Lincoln Lab Physics After the Code War Campus-Based Efforts Sociobiological Justifications of Social Inequality Brain and Behavior Exploding the Gene Myth The Myth of the Underclass Medicalization of Social Problems SATURDAY 11:00 AM The Impact of Unemployment on Education The Struggle for Public Education The New Technology and New Illiteracy: Black Community's Survival Crisis Education for Unemployment Alternatives to Plant Closings The National Pattern of Layoffs The Employee Buy-out of Market Forge State Intervention Restructuring Labor/Management Relations? Converting from Military to Civilian Production Historical Precedents The Machinists Role Federal Financing Conversion Efforts in Massachusetts Struggles in the Shadow of the High Tech Industry Building a Youth Center in the High Tech Shadow Child Care in the High Tech Shadow The Carpenter's Union Experience The Politics of Agriculture and Food Production The Hybrid Corn Experience Mechanization of Agriculture Regulation of Genetically Engineered Foods Agribusiness and Ecology To reserve program documents and register, send $5 to Patricia Weinmann, 312 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139. Make checks payable to "The Technology and Culture Seminar." For more information, contact Patricia Weinmann, (617) 253-0108, or email paradise@mit.edu. PLEASE RE-POST! ****************************************************************** ------------------------------ *********************************************************************** ****** End of Computer Underground Digest #6.05 ****** ***********************************************************************