Rider University will host a free presentation titled Global Shifts/Digital Lives: The Future of Work and Labor in America on Wednesday, April 9 at 7 p.m. in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater on its Lawrenceville campus, located at 2083 Lawrenceville Road.

From three different perspectives, panelists will examine the effects of outsourcing, downsizing and the infusion of digital technologies on the lives of American workers. The chair and discussant of the presentation is Dr. Lynn Rivas from the Department of Sociology at Rider. The three panelists and their topics are:

• Dr. Lewis Maltby, president of Workrights Institute in Princeton, Human Rights and the American Workplace: What You Don’t Know, Can Hurt You
• Dr. Ali Mir, associate professor of Business at William Paterson University, Your Job is Being Outsourced, Should You Worry?
• Dr. Biju Mathew, associate professor of Information Systems at Rider, The End of Work Autonomy: Digital Technologies in the New York City Taxi Industry

The panelists will address questions concerning the future of the American worker, the shape of the U.S. labor market, the emergent legal and policy needs to protect the worker and the ethical questions the United State will face regarding the value of work itself.

For more information about the event, contact Dr. Mathew at mathew@rider.edu.