Labor@Wayne Hosts the 2025 Dave Miller Memorial Lecture:
"'Work is Why I'm Not Fishing More:' Justice at Work and the Labor Movement's Moral Imperative"
By Dr. Robert Bruno, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Wednesday, May 7th, 2025: 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Walter Reuther Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs
5401 Cass Ave., Detroit MI 48202
2nd Floor Conference Room (#200)

Robert Bruno is Director of the Labor Education Program and a Professor of Labor and Employment, as well as the director of the Project for Middle Class Renewal in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is also the author of five books; Steelworker Alley: How Class Works In Youngstown (1999), Reforming the Chicago Teamsters: The Story of Local 705 (2003), Justified by Work: The Meaning of Faith in Chicago’s Working-Class Churches (2008), A Fight for the Soul of Public Education: The Story of the Chicago Teachers Strike (2016), and What Work Is (2024). He is the co-editor of Labor Studies Journal and is an executive board member of the United Association for Labor Education and Chicago Chapter of the Labor Employment Relations Association.

This event is free and open to the public; refreshments to be served.

Made possible by the Fraser Center for Workplace Issues, Labor@Wayne, the Walter Reuther Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, and the Wayne State Departments of History and Employment and Labor Studies (ELR)