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SAS "What Work Is: How Do We Experience Our Lives Through the Work We Do"

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Campus Honors Program
Location
132 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin, Urbana, IL
Date
Oct 3, 2024   5:15 - 6:30 pm  
Speaker
Robert Bruno
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E-Mail
chp@illinois.edu
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Robert Bruno 
Professor of Labor and Employment Relations 
Director of the Labor Education Program and 
Project for Middle Class Renewal

This presentation will draw from Robert Bruno’s recently published book, What Work Is. It is an exploration on how workers perceive, understand and experience their labor. Here work is not an object of thought, but what the individual lives through. In this sense we uncover the phenomenology of work. The intention is to see work from the worker’s point of view and explore why it matters.

Robert Bruno’s research focuses on organized labor, workers’ rights, and political and economic trends related to these issues, as he probes the balance of power between large corporations and working-class Americans, the role of the workplace in civil society, the political power of labor organizations, and ways that unions promote workers’ interests.

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