Our theme for the 2nd annual Pittsburgh Forum is focused on Work. In our work, there are tensions between technology and humans, between purpose and payment, between the manual and the intellectual, and between career education and personal enlightenment. Simply, we want to ask the question "What is good work?" We hope that, in starting with this big question, we can begin to resolve some of the tension in these well-known conflicts. We will consider everything from robots to root structures and hope you can join us for this thoughtful weekend. It will be part feast, part think-tank, part summer camp, part retreat.

"[it is a] startling possibility that we might work willingly, and that there is no necessary contradiction between work and happiness or satisfaction."
- W. Berry
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August, 8-11

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THE CASE FOR WORKING WITH YOUR HANDS

Matthew Crawford
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WORKING
Studs Terkel, graphic adaption by Harvey Pekar
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Robots Will Steal Your Job...
Federico Pistono
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What Are People For?
Wendell Berry
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Essays
Virginia Woolf
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Woman and Labour
Olive Schreiner

THE CASE FOR WORKING WITH YOUR HANDS

Matthew Crawford

"If the goal is to earn a living, then, maybe it isn’t really true that 18-year-olds need to be imparted with a sense of panic about getting into college (though they certainly need to learn). Some people are hustled off to college, then to the cubicle, against their own inclinations and natural bents, when they would rather be learning to build things or fix things."

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WORKING, A GRAPHIC ADAPTATION

Studs Terkel adapted by Harvey Pekar

“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”

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A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN

Virginia Woolf

“elegant quote”

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