Professor and Director, Institute for Workplace Studies, Cornell University ILR School
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Hyman is a historian of work and business at the ILR School of Cornell University, where he also directs the Institute for Workplace Studies in New York City, which focuses on issues surrounding the future of work. He has published two books on the history of personal
debt, Debtor Nation and Borrow. His most recent book is Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary, which traces the rise and fall of secure work. A former Fulbright scholar and McKinsey associate, Hyman received his Ph.D. in American history from Harvard University.