Alexander Kowalski
Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Institute for Work & Employment Research
Alex Kowalski is a Ph.D. candidate in the Institute for Work & Employment Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. Drawing on interdisciplinary training in sociology, industrial relations, and economics, his research investigates how the future of work is unfolding in the e-commerce fulfillment industry. In this setting, he focuses specifically on the causes and consequences of problematic work scheduling and on how nascent robotic technologies are reshaping the organization of work. He received a master’s degree in city planning from the University of California, Berkeley, where he focused on community and economic development. Before that, he was an economics reporter for Bloomberg News in Washington, D.C.