2025 Richard Gelwick Endowed Lecture with Elizabeth Anderson

Elizabeth Anderson delivered the 2025 Richard Gelwick Endowed Lecture on how modern American society thinks about work and socio-economic policies for the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership on Feb. 27. During her campus lecture, the University of Michigan professor shared insights into the history of the political economy, the original goals of the work ethic, and how this examination can inform today's thinking around equality, jobs and work conditions.   Anderson's work explores issues intersecting social justice, equality and democracy, drawing from problems in actual situations faced by everyday people. In her latest book, "Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against the Workers," she calls for worker dignity and reclaiming the work ethic in American democracy.