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The History of Work — A New Class

This semester (Spring 2021) I’m teaching a new class about the history of work. We’re asking: If making, doing, and caring are fundamental human activities that fulfill basic human needs, why are so many jobs miserable? We’ll also be thinking about how thing could be made better.

Significant Stories– Student Podcast

Learn about climate migration, pandemic-time schooling, explosive science demonstrations and more in this podcast series created by students in the “Significant Stories” class that Shireen Hamza and I taught in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard.