Book Talk

 

Monday, June 1, 2009
12:30 pm
5391 School of Public Affairs Building

 

Annette Bernhardt

"Unregulated Work: Research and Public Policy for an Emerging Trend in the U.S. Labor Market"

Presented by Annette Bernhardt, National Employment Law Project

About the speaker

Annette Bernhardt co-directed the Economic Justice Project at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, which merged with NELP in 2008. She coordinates NELP’s policy analysis and research support for campaigns around living wage jobs, immigrant worker rights and accountable development. A leading scholar of low-wage work, she has helped develop and analyze innovative policy responses to the changing nature of work in the United States. She has published widely in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, and the Journal of Labor Economics, among others. She received Princeton University’s Richard A. Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations and Cornell University’s Center for the Study of Inequality Distinguished Book Award, among others.

 

This event is co-sponsored with the Department of Urban Planning, the Center for the Study of Urban Poverty, and the Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy