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                         IS THE PARTY OVER?

             THE STATE OF WORK IN THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY

                        A Panel Discussion

                  Sunday, May 3, 1992, 3:30 p.m.

 Morris E. Cox Auditorium, 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building
                University of California - Berkeley
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The last 18 months have been rough ones for the people who work in 
the computer industry. With tens of thousands of layoffs, offshore 
competition at all levels, job hazards, discrimination and other 
workplace issues facing the industry that once seemed above all 
that, is the party over? The Berkeley Chapter of Computer Professionals 
for Social  Responsibility has assembled a panel of leading observers of 
the  industry to discuss this question and the state of computer work 
at a special event in Berkeley on Sunday, May 3.

As the computer industry matures, questions surface that have 
faced other industries for decades. Is the nature of engineering 
and design work really so different from other kinds of work? How 
do computer industry workers resolve the conflicting, often self-
imposed demands between their status as "professional" and as 
"worker"? In what ways is the situation of workers in the computer 
industry similar (or different) to other workers with regards to 
job security, layoffs, health and safety, and unions? Do unions 
have a place in the computer industry? These are just some of the 
questions that will be addressed in the discussion.

Panelists include:

o Denise Caruso, editor of Digital Media.

o John Markoff, computer industry reporter for the New York Times.

o Dennis Hayes, author of Behind the Silicon Curtain: The 
Seductions of Work in a Lonely Era (South End Press), and  
writer on technology and the environment.

o Amy Pearl, CPSR, co-author of "Becoming a Computer Scientist," 
a report on the status of women in the computer industry for the 
Association for Computing Machinery.

The panel is presented in conjunction with the Directions and 
Implications of Advanced Computing Conference (DIAC-92) in 
Berkeley, May 2 and 3. The panel will be held in the Morris E. Cox 
Auditorium, 100 Genetics and Plant Biology Building, at the 
northwest corner of the UC-Berkeley campus, at 3:30 p.m., Sunday, 
May 3. The event is free, and open to the public.

For more information, contact jdav@well.sf.ca.us