Silicon Valley Talks: Erik Baker, "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America"
Join the Silicon Valley Archives in welcoming Erik Baker as he discusses Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America on February 6, 2025. This event is free and open to the public.
Make Your Own Job: Erik Baker and The Drift on Work in America
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.
Erik Baker at Harvard Book Store with Walter Johnson
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.