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Podcast: New Books in Economic and Business History
Episode: Robert Bruno, "What Work Is" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
Description: 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.What Work Is (U Illinois Press, 2024) is draws on Bruno’s twenty years of experience teaching labor history and labo...