Katharine G. Abraham is Professor of Economics and Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. Her published research includes papers on outsourcing and alternative work arrangements; the work and retirement decisions of older Americans; student financial aid and college attendance; cyclical fluctuations in the labor market; and the measurement of economic activity.

Jessie Hammerling is a Lead Researcher for the Technology and Work Program at the University of California’s Berkeley Labor Center. She studies changes in the organization of production in key industries and the consequences of these changes for workers and their communities. Her current work focuses on technological change in the workplace and domestic outsourcing in the U.S.

David Weil is Dean and Professor of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. Prior to joining Brandeis, he was the Peter and Deborah Wexler Professor of Management at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. In 2014, he was appointed by President Barack Obama to be the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S.

Steve Viscelli is an economic sociologist who studies work, labor markets, automation, and public policy. He is currently a Faculty Fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Janet Vertesi is Associate Professor of Sociology at Princeton University.  Her area of specialization is the sociology of science, knowledge, and technology.  She has conducted major ethnographic studies of NASA's robotic spacecraft teams.