Robert Bruno
Biographic Data
| ID | 348351 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Bruno |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruno |
| SIGNATURE | BRUNO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6675-8082 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
What Happened Again? A Post-2024 U.S. Presidential Election Analysis
What Work Is
Our physical and social world is a product of the collective work we do. Work is arguably the most consequential human activity. This book is about the ways that a person’s work—the making, buying, or selling of goods or services—manifests itself in the world and is then realized by the worker. It explores how the worker understands his or her paid labor to uncover the phenomenology of work. Importantly, it examines work from the worker’s point o…
Advancing Worker State Constitutional Rights: Illinois as Model
Se você é contra o PT, meu partido é você: Uma análise das mobilizações do patronato rural do Rio Grande do Sul
This article analyzes the construction of identities and social representations of rural patronage in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul in situations of conflict, considering such mobilizations from the 1980s onward, mainly by ensuring monopoly land ownership. We investigate the meaning attributed to categories such as combat, movement, class mobilization, unity, and confrontation of adversaries, and attempt to interpret the organization o…
Does Union Canvassing Affect Voter Turnout Under Conditions of Political Constraint? Empirical Evidence from Illinois
The positive effects of union canvassing on individual-level union member voter turnout within union-friendly environments have been well documented. Yet, whether unions increase turnout among their membership under constrained circumstances has remained unexamined. Furthermore, there is little consensus on whether union canvassing effects are generalizable to populations with heterogeneous political attributes and individual characteristics. Thi…
O Processo De Construção Da Hegemonia Do Agronegócio No Brasil: Recorrências Históricas E Habitus De Classe
Este artigo reflete sobre o processo de construção da hegemonia do patronato rural e do agronegócio no Brasil nas últimas décadas. A autora argumenta que a busca por uma coesão mais ampla se baseia em diversos aspectos: a elaboração de reivindicações unificadoras; o fortalecimento dos espaços de representação de interesses; a escolha de aliados confiáveis; a construção de uma imagem positiva de si mesmo; o empenho na elaboração de uma retórica de…
Frente Parlamentar da Agropecuária (FPA): Campo de disputa entre ruralistas e petistas no Congresso Nacional brasileiro
The purpose of this paper is to ponder over dynamics within the relationships between political opponents in the Brazilian National Congress, specifically when debatingon rural development. I aim to analyse the political dispute between Ruralistas and Petistas in The Parliamentary Agricultural Front (FPA). I intend to display this feud as a broad and complex net of social, political, cultural, and symbolic relationships. Being on the opponent's g…
O ovo da serpente: Monopólio da terra e violência na Nova República
Esta dissertação de mestrado, "O Ovo da Serpente: Monopólio da Terra e Violência na Nova República", de Regina Angela Landim Bruno, analisa a intrincada relação entre o monopólio da terra, a violência e a formação do Estado no Brasil durante a Nova República (1985-1994). A pesquisa investiga como a concentração fundiária histórica, perpetuada por estruturas de poder e legislação inadequada, contribuiu para o aumento da violência no campo. A autor…
U.S. Democracy in the Balance: The Importance of Labor’s Political Impact
The Positive Impact of Perceived Union Support on Union Member Work Meaningfulness: Examining Mechanisms and Boundary Conditions
Meaningful work has been linked to consequential individual and organizational outcomes, and has, therefore, become an important topic of study. Yet there is a paucity of research examining the effect of unions on members’ work meaningfulness. In a field sample, using a time-lagged survey methodology, we examined the effect of perceived union support on members’ perceptions of work meaningfulness, and tested perceived union fulfillment of workers…
Introduction to Special Conference Issue on Socialism and Labor: Theory and Praxis
Worker Voice and Union Revitalization: The Role of Contract Enforcement at Seiu
This article contributes to the study of union revitalization efforts by exploring the strategic underpinnings of and consideration for a restructured grievance system in a large Service Employees International Union (SEIU) local based in Chicago (hereinafter Local 1). This case study provides for a unique opportunity to examine the role that the structure and process of handling grievances plays in union efforts to mobilize members, increase mem…
Job Satisfaction and Union Participation: The Role of Fit
Job satisfaction’s role as an antecedent to union participation has often been proposed as a negative relationship, but empirical support is lacking. To clarify boundary conditions of this relationship, we turn to the exit-voice tradeoff and the attraction-selection-attrition framework. We suggest a negative job satisfaction–union participation relationship exists only among workers lacking fit with their colleagues (“person-workgroup fit”). We e…
Labor Debates: Assessing the Fight for Fifteen Movement from Chicago
Introduction: Organized Labor, the Working Class, and the 2016 Presidential Election
Agricultura Empresarial, Povos E Comunidades Tradicionais
O objetivo deste artigo é refletir sobre os mecanismos de dominação simbólica presentes no discurso dos representantes dos grandes proprietários de terra e empresários agroindustriais quando dirigidos aos povos e comunidades tradicionais. Busco identificar a natureza de seus argumentos e perceber como as "diferenças fundamentais" (Gramsci, 1972) se exprimem na linguagem dessas elites e de seus porta-vozes. De uma perspectiva mais geral, procuro m…
New Models of Worker Representation
The Economic Effects of Adopting a Right-to-Work Law: Implications for Illinois
While considerable efforts have been made by legislators, business associations, and political organizations to pass right-to-work (RTW) laws in states across the country, the empirical evidence on the effect of adopting an RTW law on labor market outcomes and state budgets is both varied and mixed. This article provides a forecast on the effect of RTW laws on important labor market outcomes—including earnings, employment, unionization, and inequ…
Teachers Unions at a Fork in the Road: Strike for America: Chicago Teachers against Austerity and How to Jump-Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers
Making Class Visible
Unions, the Working Class, and Politics
Not Ready to Make Nice”: The Politics of Identity and Why Union Voters Wanted a Class Champion in 2008
This article is based on a political survey of 600 members of the United Steelworkers (USW) in three battleground states (Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania) and focus group interviews with USW local leadership and activist members. The focus of the research is on assessing union member perceptions of the three top candidates from the 2008 presidential primaries (Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama, and John McCain) and how these perceptions were influen…
Evidence of Bias in the Chicago Tribune Coverage of Organized Labor: A Quantitative Study from 1991 to 2001
Labor leaders contend newspaper coverage of unions is unjustifiably negative and is usually fixated on conflict and corruption. While this attitude is broadly shared across the union spectrum, there has been little actual objective analysis of labor news reporting to substantiate or discredit the common belief. In an attempt to assess the accuracy of labor’s claim, a ten-year content analysis of industrial relations coverage in the Chicago Tribun…
Visible Past: Learning and discovering in real and virtual space and time
Visible Past proposes a cross platform, scalable environment (Exploratorium) for collaborative social, geographic, and historical education and research. The Exploratorium will be deployed in a variety of settings, from Web to fully immersive virtual reality environments. Educational activities can be formal (classroom teaching) or informal (conducted in a museum or self–directed online learning setting). The specific goals of the Exploratorium c…
Union Building and Professionalism: The Chicago Teachers Union Campaign to Close the Educational “Governance Gap„
Since at least the mid-1980s critical voices have called for reforming public education. In 1995 the Chicago Public School system was placed under the mayor's control and a labor agreement with nearly 30,000 teachers was stripped of many essential provisions. But in 2001 a leadership change at the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) promised a new representational approach that would not only win back contract rights, but also embrace a more assertive r…
Nova República: A Violência Patronal Rural Como Prática De Classe
Durante a Nova República, disseminou-se junto às associações e sindicatos patronais rurais a certeza de "uma verdadeira guerra no campo" e a "inevitabilidade" da violência como única medida eficaz para conter as ações de ocupação de terras e a demanda por uma reforma agrária. O objetivo deste trabalho é mostrar, tendo como fonte o debate na grande imprensa, que a defesa e a prática da violência pelos grandes proprietários de terra e empresários r…
Agricultura Empresarial, Povos E Comunidades Tradicionais
O objetivo deste artigo é refletir sobre os mecanismos de dominação simbólica presentes no discurso dos representantes dos grandes proprietários de terra e empresários agroindustriais quando dirigidos aos povos e comunidades tradicionais. Busco identificar a natureza de seus argumentos e perceber como as "diferenças fundamentais" (Gramsci, 1972) se exprimem na linguagem dessas elites e de seus porta-vozes. De uma perspectiva mais geral, procuro m…
Frente Parlamentar da Agropecuária (FPA): Campo de disputa entre ruralistas e petistas no Congresso Nacional brasileiro
The purpose of this paper is to ponder over dynamics within the relationships between political opponents in the Brazilian National Congress, specifically when debatingon rural development. I aim to analyse the political dispute between Ruralistas and Petistas in The Parliamentary Agricultural Front (FPA). I intend to display this feud as a broad and complex net of social, political, cultural, and symbolic relationships. Being on the opponent's g…
The Economic Effects of Adopting a Right-to-Work Law: Implications for Illinois
While considerable efforts have been made by legislators, business associations, and political organizations to pass right-to-work (RTW) laws in states across the country, the empirical evidence on the effect of adopting an RTW law on labor market outcomes and state budgets is both varied and mixed. This article provides a forecast on the effect of RTW laws on important labor market outcomes—including earnings, employment, unionization, and inequ…
Evidence of Bias in the Chicago Tribune Coverage of Organized Labor: A Quantitative Study from 1991 to 2001
Labor leaders contend newspaper coverage of unions is unjustifiably negative and is usually fixated on conflict and corruption. While this attitude is broadly shared across the union spectrum, there has been little actual objective analysis of labor news reporting to substantiate or discredit the common belief. In an attempt to assess the accuracy of labor’s claim, a ten-year content analysis of industrial relations coverage in the Chicago Tribun…
From Union Identity to Union Voting: An Assessment of the 1996 Election
An important but remarkably under analyzed labor studies subject is the relationship between union identity and union member voting behav ior. The dominant political theory in America holds that pluralism gen erates overlapping and crosscutting interests that militate against the for mation of a dominant political orientation. However, it is the thesis of this work that once subjected to intense union political education and lobby ing, workers wo…
Revisitando a UDR: Ação Política, Ideologia E Representação
This paper aims to expose the main aspect's of UDR's (Ruralist Democratic Union) political action and, particularly, of its classist representation and corporativism. It also shows that UDR and Caiado express clearly the mechanisms of the domination exerted by the class of the big land owners. The conservadorism of the agrarian dominant class and the retrograde autoritarism in Brazilian politics are also discussed
The Positive Impact of Perceived Union Support on Union Member Work Meaningfulness: Examining Mechanisms and Boundary Conditions
Meaningful work has been linked to consequential individual and organizational outcomes, and has, therefore, become an important topic of study. Yet there is a paucity of research examining the effect of unions on members’ work meaningfulness. In a field sample, using a time-lagged survey methodology, we examined the effect of perceived union support on members’ perceptions of work meaningfulness, and tested perceived union fulfillment of workers…
Not Ready to Make Nice”: The Politics of Identity and Why Union Voters Wanted a Class Champion in 2008
This article is based on a political survey of 600 members of the United Steelworkers (USW) in three battleground states (Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania) and focus group interviews with USW local leadership and activist members. The focus of the research is on assessing union member perceptions of the three top candidates from the 2008 presidential primaries (Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama, and John McCain) and how these perceptions were influen…
Uswa-Bargained and State-Oriented Responses to the Recurrent Steel Crisis
The contemporary American integrated steel industry is at the peak of its efficiency, cost-effectiveness, technological sophistication, and productivity. But performance standards aside, domestic steelmakers have become even less competitive and find themselves on the brink of collapse. This time, however, the industry's distress is not caused by poor market behavior, primarily or in even in sizeable part, but by a hostile set of United States go…
Se você é contra o PT, meu partido é você: Uma análise das mobilizações do patronato rural do Rio Grande do Sul
This article analyzes the construction of identities and social representations of rural patronage in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul in situations of conflict, considering such mobilizations from the 1980s onward, mainly by ensuring monopoly land ownership. We investigate the meaning attributed to categories such as combat, movement, class mobilization, unity, and confrontation of adversaries, and attempt to interpret the organization o…
O Processo De Construção Da Hegemonia Do Agronegócio No Brasil: Recorrências Históricas E Habitus De Classe
Este artigo reflete sobre o processo de construção da hegemonia do patronato rural e do agronegócio no Brasil nas últimas décadas. A autora argumenta que a busca por uma coesão mais ampla se baseia em diversos aspectos: a elaboração de reivindicações unificadoras; o fortalecimento dos espaços de representação de interesses; a escolha de aliados confiáveis; a construção de uma imagem positiva de si mesmo; o empenho na elaboração de uma retórica de…
Everyday Constructions of Culture and Class: The Case of Youngstown Steelworkers
(1999). Everyday Constructions of Culture and Class: The Case of Youngstown Steelworkers. Labor History: Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 143-176
Property Rights or Entitlements: How Esops Influence what Workers Value about Their Unions
O UDR e o processo eleitoral
A eleição para a Presidência da República aproxima-se finalmente, mas no quadro de descontrole econômico e descrédito generalizado que vivemos, torna-se difícil fazer previsões seguras para os possíveis desdobramentos do atual momento político brasileiro. Apesar de nem a própria eleição estar garantida, algumas coisas podem ser tidas como certas: a candidatura de Ronaldo Caiado não "decolou", nem tampouco a UDR (União Democrática Ruralista) possu…
The 1946 Union of Electrical, Radio and Machinist Workers' strike against the Phelps-Dodge Copper Company of Elizabeth, New Jersey
(1994). The 1946 Union of Electrical, Radio and Machinist Workers' strike against the Phelps-Dodge Copper Company of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Labor History: Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 345-371
Revisitando a UDR: Ação Política, Ideologia E Representação
This paper aims to expose the main aspect's of UDR's (Ruralist Democratic Union) political action and, particularly, of its classist representation and corporativism. It also shows that UDR and Caiado express clearly the mechanisms of the domination exerted by the class of the big land owners. The conservadorism of the agrarian dominant class and the retrograde autoritarism in Brazilian politics are also discussed
Property Rights or Entitlements: How Esops Influence what Workers Value about Their Unions
Everyday Constructions of Culture and Class: The Case of Youngstown Steelworkers
(1999). Everyday Constructions of Culture and Class: The Case of Youngstown Steelworkers. Labor History: Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 143-176
From Union Identity to Union Voting: An Assessment of the 1996 Election
An important but remarkably under analyzed labor studies subject is the relationship between union identity and union member voting behav ior. The dominant political theory in America holds that pluralism gen erates overlapping and crosscutting interests that militate against the for mation of a dominant political orientation. However, it is the thesis of this work that once subjected to intense union political education and lobby ing, workers wo…
Steelworker Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown
Nova República: A Violência Patronal Rural Como Prática De Classe
Durante a Nova República, disseminou-se junto às associações e sindicatos patronais rurais a certeza de "uma verdadeira guerra no campo" e a "inevitabilidade" da violência como única medida eficaz para conter as ações de ocupação de terras e a demanda por uma reforma agrária. O objetivo deste trabalho é mostrar, tendo como fonte o debate na grande imprensa, que a defesa e a prática da violência pelos grandes proprietários de terra e empresários r…
The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinski and his Legacy, Media Process Educational Films and Chigago Video Project, 56 minutes
History
Struggling Unions, Henry Bass, 2004, Merrimack Films, 34: 36 Minutes
Uswa-Bargained and State-Oriented Responses to the Recurrent Steel Crisis
The contemporary American integrated steel industry is at the peak of its efficiency, cost-effectiveness, technological sophistication, and productivity. But performance standards aside, domestic steelmakers have become even less competitive and find themselves on the brink of collapse. This time, however, the industry's distress is not caused by poor market behavior, primarily or in even in sizeable part, but by a hostile set of United States go…
Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture and Postwar Democracy, 1940–1960
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Visible Past: Learning and discovering in real and virtual space and time
Visible Past proposes a cross platform, scalable environment (Exploratorium) for collaborative social, geographic, and historical education and research. The Exploratorium will be deployed in a variety of settings, from Web to fully immersive virtual reality environments. Educational activities can be formal (classroom teaching) or informal (conducted in a museum or self–directed online learning setting). The specific goals of the Exploratorium c…
Union Building and Professionalism: The Chicago Teachers Union Campaign to Close the Educational “Governance Gap„
Since at least the mid-1980s critical voices have called for reforming public education. In 1995 the Chicago Public School system was placed under the mayor's control and a labor agreement with nearly 30,000 teachers was stripped of many essential provisions. But in 2001 a leadership change at the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) promised a new representational approach that would not only win back contract rights, but also embrace a more assertive r…
Evidence of Bias in the Chicago Tribune Coverage of Organized Labor: A Quantitative Study from 1991 to 2001
Labor leaders contend newspaper coverage of unions is unjustifiably negative and is usually fixated on conflict and corruption. While this attitude is broadly shared across the union spectrum, there has been little actual objective analysis of labor news reporting to substantiate or discredit the common belief. In an attempt to assess the accuracy of labor’s claim, a ten-year content analysis of industrial relations coverage in the Chicago Tribun…
Making Class Visible
Unions, the Working Class, and Politics
Not Ready to Make Nice”: The Politics of Identity and Why Union Voters Wanted a Class Champion in 2008
This article is based on a political survey of 600 members of the United Steelworkers (USW) in three battleground states (Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania) and focus group interviews with USW local leadership and activist members. The focus of the research is on assessing union member perceptions of the three top candidates from the 2008 presidential primaries (Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama, and John McCain) and how these perceptions were influen…
New Models of Worker Representation
The Economic Effects of Adopting a Right-to-Work Law: Implications for Illinois
While considerable efforts have been made by legislators, business associations, and political organizations to pass right-to-work (RTW) laws in states across the country, the empirical evidence on the effect of adopting an RTW law on labor market outcomes and state budgets is both varied and mixed. This article provides a forecast on the effect of RTW laws on important labor market outcomes—including earnings, employment, unionization, and inequ…
Teachers Unions at a Fork in the Road: Strike for America: Chicago Teachers against Austerity and How to Jump-Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers
Labor Debates: Assessing the Fight for Fifteen Movement from Chicago
Introduction: Organized Labor, the Working Class, and the 2016 Presidential Election
Agricultura Empresarial, Povos E Comunidades Tradicionais
O objetivo deste artigo é refletir sobre os mecanismos de dominação simbólica presentes no discurso dos representantes dos grandes proprietários de terra e empresários agroindustriais quando dirigidos aos povos e comunidades tradicionais. Busco identificar a natureza de seus argumentos e perceber como as "diferenças fundamentais" (Gramsci, 1972) se exprimem na linguagem dessas elites e de seus porta-vozes. De uma perspectiva mais geral, procuro m…
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