Episode 1: What Work Is.

Frank Manzo IV, MPP is the Policy Director of the Illinois Economic Policy Institute (ILEPI). He earned a Master of Public Policy from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an Advanced Certificate of Labor Studies from the University of Illinois. He specializes in labor market analysis, economic development, infrastructure investment, the low-wage labor force, and public finance.

Robert Bruno, PhD is a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Labor and Employment Relations and the Director of the School’s Labor Education Program. He also directs the Project for Middle Class Renewal at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses broadly on working-class, middle-class, and union studies issues. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Political Theory from New York University and his Master of Arts in Political Science from Bowling Green State University.

Emily E. LB. Twarog, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Labor and Employment Relations and the Director of the Regina V. Polk Women’s Labor Leadership Conference. Her research focuses on the history of consumer activism and gender, motherhood and working-class women, intersections of feminism and class, and the history of labor union auxiliaries. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in American History from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her Master of Arts in American History from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.