Robert Bruno is a professor of labor and employment relations at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he also serves as Director of the Labor Education Program. He is the author of Justified by Work: Identity and the Meaning of Faith in Chicago's Working-Class Churches; Steelworker Alley: How Class Works In Youngstown; and Reforming the Chicago Teamsters: The Story of Local 705. He is the coauthor of A Fight for the Soul of Public Education: The Chicago Teachers Strike.
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Introduction Chapter 1. The Time of Work Chapter 2. Work and Space Chapter 3. Work's Impact Chapter 4. The Purpose of Work Chapter 5. The Subject of Work Conclusion Index
"Understanding what work means is critically important for understanding the lived experiences of millions of people and for research and policymaking. Bruno gives voice to workers who are critically important for society but overlooked by research focused on the managerial and professional class. The nuances revealed by the workers' own words can't be observed in statistical analyses, and the more we learn about their experiences through their own voices, the better."--John W. Budd, author of The Thought of Work