Elaine Bernard

Elaine Bernard is the former executive director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Her writings often focus on women and the traditionally female jobs, to which she brings a feminist and highly class-conscious theoretical perspective.

She continues to focus on workers in the telecommunications industry, and the role technological change plays in altering work.

In the last several years, she has publicly discussed how advancing technology will change how labor unions function (especially in regard to member-to-member and union-member communication and organizing).

[4] Bernard often takes the American labor movement to task for not being aggressive enough in pushing its agenda, too willing to couch its opinions and conclusions in objective language, and for not engaging in strategic thinking.