2008 Sloan Conference

A Conversation on Workplace Flexibility Research, Business Practice and Public Policy

Workplace Flexibility 2010 hosted the 2008 conference for grantees of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Workplace, Work Force, and Working Families Program. Conversation focused on research, business practice and public policy developments in the work-family field.

The Conference:

  • Workplace Structure and Its Impact on Hourly Workers and Their Families
    • Jennifer Swanberg, Ph.D, Associate Professor, University of Kentucky: Low-Wage Workers
    • Maureen Perry Jenkins, Ph.D., Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, on "the Lives of Hourly Workers and their Families"
  • Workplace Structure and Its Impact on Salaried Workers and Their Families
    • Lonnie Golden, Ph.D., Professor, Pennsylvania State University, on the economics of Flexible Work Arrangements
    • Tamar Kremer-Sadlik, Ph.D., Director of Research, UCLA Center on Everyday Lives of Family, on the moral discourse surrounding the work/family conflict

Materials:

Letter of Invitation, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Conference Agenda, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Participant List, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Panelist Biographies, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Conference Webcast, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Low-Wage Workers, Jennifer E. Swanberg PhD

The Lives of Hourly Workers and their Families, Maureen Perry-Jenkins PhD

The Economics of Flexible Work Arrangements, Lonnie Golden PhD