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Show Daily Utah Chronicle Thursday, November 18,2004 The College of Social and Behavioral Science in collaboration with The Ford Foundation proudly presents the Eighth Annual 2004 Rocco C. and Marion S. Siciliano Forum Considerations on the Status of the American Society Dr. Richard B. Freeman is Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard University, Co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also Co-Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Professor Freeman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of Sigma Xi. He has served on five panels of the National Academy of Sciences, including the Committee on National Needs for Biomedical and Behaviora Scientists. He has published over 300 articles dealing with a wide range of research interests including the job market for scientists and engineers; the growth and decline of unions; the effects of immigration and trade on inequality; restructuring European welfare states; Chinese labor markets; transitional economies; youth labor market problems; crime; self-organizing non-unions in the labor market; employee involvement programs; and income distribution and equity in the marketplace. He is currently directing the NBER / Sloan Science Engineering Workforce Project (with Daniel Goroff), and an LSE research program on the effects of the internet on labor markets, social behavior and the economy. Labor Goes Global: The Effects of Globalization on Workers Around the World Dr. Richard B. Freeman Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard University, Co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Thursday, November 18, 2004 Noon Katherine W. and Ezekiel R. Dumke, Jr. Auditorium Utah Museum of Fine Arts University of Utah Free and Open to the Public Salt Lake City, Utah |