Bob Bruno

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Robert Bruno is Director of the Labor Studies Program and a Professor of Labor and Employment at the University of Illinois. He is the author of  <em>Steelworker Alley: How Class Works In Youngstown</em> (1999), <em>Reforming the Chicago Teamsters: The Story of Local 705</em> (2003), <em>Justified by Work: The Meaning of Faith in Chicago’s Working-Class Churches</em>  (2008)
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What Work Is: In Six-Word Essays

In my book, What Work Is, I assert that work has an enormous contradictory impact on the workers and society they build. Anthropologist

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“A debt paid for abandoned goals”: A Reflection from What Work Is

In recognition of Women’s History Month, I offer the following excerpt from my recently published book, What Work Is. The book is built

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