Harvard Book Store welcomes Erik Baker—Lecturer on the History of Science at Harvard University—for a discussion of his new book Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America, a sweeping new history of the changing meaning of work in the United States.

P&T Knitwear, in partnership with The Drift, is pleased to welcome Erik Baker to celebrate the publication of Make Your Own Job: a sweeping history of the entrepreneurial work ethic in America, from its origins in late nineteenth-century success literature to the gig economy of today — and how it helped legitimize a society of mounting economic insecurity and inequality.

Erik will be joined in conversation by Rebecca Panovka, a founding editor of The Drift. Along with a discussion and audience Q&A, Erik will be signing copies of Make Your Own Job. Copies ofThe Drift willalso be available for purchase.