Resetting The Clockwork:
Possibilities for Healthy Employees, Retirees, Families, Businesses and Communities

 Clockwork Home

 Program

Sponsored by

University of Minnesota
  - Life Course Center
  - Department of Sociology
  - College of Liberal Arts
  - Carlson School of
        Management
  - Center for Urban and
        Regional Affairs
  - Humphrey Institute of Public
        Affairs
  - President's Initiative on
        Children, Youth, and
        Families

Financial Support from

  - Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  - McKnight Foundation

Organized by
   Phyllis Moen
    McKnight Presidential Chair
    in Sociology
    Career Mystique
    by Phyllis Moen

Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) Broadcast

July 24: Resetting the Clockwork: Changing the Way We Work
                7:00 p.m. on TPT Channel 17 and 17 D
                Vacation time, flexible scheduling and worker efficiency.

July 31: Resetting the Clockwork: Changing the Way We Retire
                7:00 p.m. on TPT Channel 17 and 17 D
                The future of retirement in America is discussed.

The Clockwork Forum took place at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Center on April 22, 2005.        

Keynote Speakers

• Ellen Galinsky, President and Co-Founder, Families and Work Institute
  Ms. Galinsky is President and Co-Founder of Families and Work Institute, a Manhattan-based non-profit organization that conducts research on the changing family, changing workforce and changing community. At the Institute, Ms. Galinsky co-directs The National Study of the Changing Workforce, a nationally representative study of the U.S. workforce that is updated every five years, and was originally conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor. She is also currently directing a campaign on workplace flexibility funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that will launch the Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility in eight communities as well as conducting The 2004 Business Work-Life Study, a comprehensive study of how U.S. companies respond to the work-life needs of their employees. Ms. Galinsky is the program director of the annual work-life conference co-convened by The Conference Board and Families and Work Institute and staffs The Conference Board's Work-Life Leadership Council. She is also directing Mind in the Making, a project on early learning that includes a 13-part science series on public television. Her latest Ask the Children study focuses on youth and learning.
    
• Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management
  Thomas A. Kochan is the George M. Bunker Professor of Management at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He has served as a third-party mediator, fact finder, and arbitrator and as a consultant to a variety of government and private sector organizations and labor-management groups. He was a consultant for one year to the Secretary of Labor in the department of Labor's Office of Policy Evaluation and Research. In 1996, Prof. Kochan received the Heneman Career Achievement Award. From 1993 to 1995 he was appointed to the Clinton Administration's Commission on the Future of Work/Management Relations. The Commission investigated methods to improve the productivity and global competitiveness of the American workplace. He is the president of the International Industrial Relations Association. He has done research on a variety of topics related to industrial relations and human resource management in the public and private sector. He is the author of several books, reports and working papers.

• Chai Feldblum, Georgetown University Law Center
  Professor Chai Feldblum is the Director of Workplace Flexibility 2010. She is responsible for overseeing the strategy, legislative lawyering, policy research, media, and constituent outreach components of the effort. Professor Feldblum joined the faculty of Georgetown University Law Center in 1991 and established the Federal Legislation Clinic in 1993. Feldblum coined the term "legislative lawyer" to describe a lawyer equally skilled in law and politics who can research, draft and negotiate legislation and administrative regulations. Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, Feldblum served as the principal lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union's AIDS Project where she drafted and negotiated the Americans with Disabilities Act. Feldblum served as a law clerk to Judge Frank M. Coffin on the First Circuit Court of Appeals and to Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court. Ms. Feldblum also worked as a lobbyist on population issues and as a staff person to then-Congresswoman Barbara Mikulski. Professor Feldblum received her BA from Barnard College and her JD from Harvard Law School.

• Marc Freedman, Founder and President of Civic Ventures
  Marc Freedman is Founder and President of Civic Ventures. He also led the effort to create The Experience Corps, the nation's largest national service program engaging Americans 50 and above. Formerly Vice President of Public/PrivateVentures and a Visiting Fellow of Kings College, University of London, Freedman is author of the book, <http://www.civicventures.org/primetime.html>Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America. An editor's recommendation of the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, Prime Time was hailed by The New York Times as an "inspiring, informative, mind-opening book." His earlier book, <http://www.civicventures.org/kindness.html>The Kindness of Strangers, was called "the definitive book on the (mentoring) movement" by The Los Angeles Times, and was recently reissued in paperback by Cambridge University Press. A frequent commentator in the national media, Freedman has testified before numerous committees of the U.S. Congress and the British Parliament on topics including the aging of America, retirement, and volunteering. He is a high honors graduate of Swarthmore College with an MBA from Yale University, and the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Ashoka Fellowship, the Maxwell A. Pollack Award of the Gerontological Society of America and the Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy. He currently serves on the board of Generations United.

• Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Boston College
  Marcie Pitt-Catsopuphes is the Director of the Sloan Work and Family Research Network. She is also an assistant professor who teaches community theory, organizational theory, and social planning in the Graduate School of Social Work at Boston College. From 1990- 1999, she conducted research at the Boston College Center for Work & Family, most recently as the Center's Director. Marcie is currently a co-principal investigator with Shelley MacDermid of the study, "Understanding the First Job: Nurturing Families," funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In 2003, Marcie initiated a pilot project to investigate the interest of elected representatives at the state level in research-based information and other resources about work-family issues. She is currently a Research Fellow of the Work & Family Roundtable, a corporate membership group. She was also a founding co-editor of the international journal Community, Work and Family, and co-edited a special issue of the ANNALS of Political and Social Sciences: The Evolving World of Work and Family: New Stakeholders, New Voices. With Ellen Kossek, she currently serves as a co-editor of the peer-reviewed Work and Family Encyclopedia. She is also a co-editor of The Work-Family Handbook: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives and Approaches to Research, scheduled for publication by Erlbaum Publishers in 2006.

Contact: Phyllis Moen at phylmoen@umn.edu
               or Jane Peterson at jampeter@umn.edu

(c) 2005 Phyllis Moen                              Last Modified: July 21, 2005