Work and Its Future in a Time of Change
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Since 1973, our productivity has grown almost six times faster than our wages. Most of us rank so far below the top earners in the country that the "winners" might as well inhabit another planet.
But work is about much more than earning a living. Work gives us our identity, and a sense of purpose and place in this world. And yet, work as we know it is under siege.
Joining us today to discuss is Ellen Ruppel Shell, author of The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change.
Through exhaustive reporting and keen analysis, The Job reveals the startling truths and unveils the pervasive myths that have colored our thinking on one of the most urgent issues of our day: how to build good work in a globalized and digitalized world where middle class jobs seem to be slipping away.
Traveling from deep in Appalachia to the heart of the Midwestern rust belt, from a struggling custom clothing maker in Massachusetts to a thriving co-working center in Minnesota, Shell presents evidence from a wide range of disciplines to show how our educational system, our politics, and our very sense of self have been held captive to and distorted by outdated notions of what it means to get and keep a good job.
Work, in all its richness, complexity, rewards and pain, is essential for people to flourish. Ellen Ruppel Shell paints a compelling portrait of where we stand today, and points to a promising and hopeful way forward.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Jill Schlesinger on this episode of the podcast. We're talking about your job. |
| 0:09.0 | Today it would be pretty high status to have a job and actually be able to control your time and say, |
| 0:14.4 | you know what, it's five o'clock, I'm going home and I'm unplugging. |
| 0:18.1 | That I think would be great if that became high status. |
| 0:22.1 | You know, the idea that you actually control your time, your |
| 0:25.4 | employer does not control your time. |
| 0:27.6 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Podcast. This is the program where we provide unconventional and entertaining |
| 0:35.8 | insights on your money and life. And boy, where does your money and life |
| 0:40.3 | intersect most dramatically in your job and we have a great guest |
| 0:45.3 | Ellen Rupel Shell she is a professor at Boston University she's a correspondent for |
| 0:51.8 | the Atlantic Monthly and she is the author of a new book called The Job. |
| 0:57.0 | What's really interesting about this book is that Ellen goes deep into the underbelly of the labor market and trends that are going to impact |
| 1:07.4 | us what makes us happy, how we can navigate it. |
| 1:11.5 | I hope you enjoy it. I think she's fantastic. The interview is great and |
| 1:16.1 | if you have a financial question that you want us to answer, maybe it's about your job or your |
| 1:20.4 | career or something else, just send us us an email ask Jill at Jill on |
| 1:24.3 | money dot com okay here's our interview with Ellen |
| 1:29.4 | you're listening to Jill on money with Jill Schlesinger. |
| 1:33.0 | Ellen Ripple Shell is the author of The Job. |
| 1:37.0 | So Ellen, we start the program with an important question. |
| 1:41.0 | Every guest comes in and we ask what is the best financial or career |
| 1:46.7 | decision that you've ever made. So I'm going to make it a career decision for you since you're |
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