What work is / Robert Bruno.
2024
HD8066 .B78 2024
On loan from New Bookshelf - 2nd (Main) Floor, due 25. Apr 2024
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Title
What work is / Robert Bruno.
Author
Bruno, Robert, 1955- author.
ISBN
9780252045493 hardcover
0252045491 hardcover
9780252087608 paperback
0252087607 paperback
9780252055119 electronic book
0252045491 hardcover
9780252087608 paperback
0252087607 paperback
9780252055119 electronic book
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2024]
Copyright
©2024
Language
English
Description
ix, 220 pages ; 23 cm.
Call Number
HD8066 .B78 2024
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1375439056
Summary
"For more than twenty years, Robert Bruno has taught labor history and labor studies to union members from a wide range of occupations and demographic groups. In the class, he asked his students to finish the question "Work is-?" in six words or less. The thousands of responses he collected provide some of the rich source material behind What Work Is. Bruno draws on the thoughts and feelings experienced by workers in the present day to analyze how we might design a future of work. He breaks down perceptions of work into five categories: work and time; the space workers occupy; the impact of work on our lives; the sense of purpose that motivates workers; and the people we work for, in all senses of the term. Far-seeing and sympathetic, What Work Is merges personal experiences with research, poetry, and other diverse sources to illuminate workers' lives in the present and envision what work could be in the future"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Working class in American history.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Bruno, Robert, 1955- What work is Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2023
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