Allison Pugh is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Virginia. Her latest book, The Last Human Job, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press, and is an investigation of what happens when we try to standardize work that relies on relationship. Her research and teaching focus on how economic trends – from job insecurity to commodification to automation – shape the way people forge connections and find meaning and dignity at home and at work. Other books include Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture (California 2009) and The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity (Oxford 2015); she also writes about qualitative methods. She has been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, the Berggruen Institute, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and a visiting scholar in Germany, France and Australia. A former journalist, she also writes for a wider audience in such venues as The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The New Republic.
