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Elaine Bernard Personal Data Home Address: 255 Powder House Blvd., Somerville,
MA, 02144 Education Ph.D., Simon Fraser University (SFU)
1988. M.A. History, University of British
Columbia, (UBC) 1979. B.A. General, University of Alberta, (U of A) 1976. Undergraduate, Carleton University, 1971-73. Professional and Teaching Experience Executive Director: Trade Union Program, Harvard University (1989-present) Labour Program, Continuing Studies, Simon Fraser University (1983-1989) Labour Historian: Brewery, Winery and Distillery Workers Union, 1984-86. Telecommunications Workers Union, 1980-82. Member: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Advisory Committee on Science and Technology (1983-1988
International Comparative Labor Movements,
1994 - 1996. Non-credit labor education courses including: "Reinventing Government and Reinvigorating Unions," "Technological and Systems Changes," "Strategic Planning for Labor Organizations," "Negotiations," "Facing Management," "Computers and the Local Union," "Parliamentary Procedure," "Public Speaking," "Labor History," "Video Display Terminals, Health and Safety," "Labour Economics," "Internal Organizing: Working on the Inside," "Instructors Training," "Women in the Workforce," "Leadership Training," and "Preparing for Technological Change." Publications - Books: Why Unions Matter, Guildford Press (forthcoming 1999) Technological Change and Skills Development, Deakin University Press, Australia, 1991. Working Lives: Vancouver 1886-1986, Co-author and co-ordinator Working Lives Collective, New Star Books, Vancouver, December 1985. The Long Distance Feeling: A History of the Telecommunications Workers Union, New Star Books, Vancouver, November 1982. Publications - Articles: "Preparing for Change: Government Workers Face the Future," with James Jacob, (forthcoming). "Solidarity and Democracy: Creating Democratic Communities in the Workplace," in The New Labor Movement for the New Century, ed. Gregory Mantsios, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1998. "Social Unionism and Restructuring," with Sid Shniad, New Labor Forum, Fall 1997. "Ensuring That Monitoring is Not Co-Opted," Vol. 7, No. 4, New Solutions, Summer 1997. "Education vs. Propaganda," Our Times, Vol. 16, No. 5, September/October 1997. "Public Sector Workers in Reinventing Government," New Solutions, Vol. 7, No. 1, Fall 1996. "What Can Unions Do in Transitional Economies?" with Richard Freeman, Industrial Relations Research Association Series: Proceedings of the Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting January 5-7, 1996. "Management Resistance to Change: A Case of Computer Information Systems," Beyond Survival: Wage Labor in the Twentieth Century, eds Cyrus Bina, Laurie Clements and Chuck Davis, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., New York, 1996. Why Unions Matter, Open Magazine Pamphlet Series, New Jersey, 1996. "Canada: Joint Committees on Occupational Health and Safety," Works Councils: Consultation, Representation, and Cooperation in Industrial Relations, eds Joel Roger and Wolfgang Streeck, National Bureau of Economic Research, Chicago, 1995. "The New Democratic Party and Labor Political Action in Canada," Labor Research Review, #22, 1994. "Why Single Payer is Still Our Best Bet," Social Policy, Spring 1994. "What's Wrong with NAFTA?" New Politics, Vol. IV, No. 4, Winter 1994. "Clinton and Labour," Canadian Dimension, November-December 1993. "A Labor Perspective on the Americans with Disabilities Act," Arbitration 1993: Arbitration and the Changing World of Work, BNA Books, Washington DC, 1993. "Information Technology: Old Problems, New Tools, and New Possibilities for a Healthy Workplace," Technological Change in the Workplace: Health Impacts for Workers, eds Marianne P. Brown and John R. Froines, UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations, Publications Center, Los Angeles, 1993. "The Health Care Battle is On," Lies of Our Times, New York, July-August 1993. "The Politics of Canada's Health Care System: Lessons for the US," Radical America, Vol. 24, No. 3, 1993. "Labour, the New Democratic Party, and the 1988 Federal Election," Canadian and American Labour Respond, ed. Jane Jenson, Temple University Press, 1993. "Opposing the New World Order in Canada," Global Visions: Beyond the New World Order, eds Jeremy Brecher, John Brown Childs, and Jill Cutler, South End Press, Boston, 1993. "NAFTA on the Fast Track," Canadian Dimension, November-December 1992. "Social Unionism: Labor as a Political Force," Social Policy, with Christopher Schenk, Vol. 23, No. 1, Summer 1992. "Canada Health Care in a 30 Second Sound Bite," Canadian Dimension, April-May 1992. "Labour and the Environment: A Look at BC's 'War in the Woods,'" Getting on Track: Social Democratic Strategies for Ontario, ed. Daniel Drache and Leo O'Grady, McGill- Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1992. "The Politics of Canada's Health Care System," New Politics, Vol. III, No. 4, Winter 1992. "Canada's New Democratic Party At Thirty: A Brief History," Socialist Review, 91/4. "What the NDP Says to the U.S. Left," The Progressive, September 1991. "The NDP Victory in Ontario," New Politics, Vol.III, No.3, Summer 1991. "Labor and Politics in the U.S. and Canada," Labor in a Global Economy: Perspectives from the U.S. and Canada, eds Steven Hecker, Margaret Hallock, University of Oregon Books, 1991. "Notes on Lithuania in Transition," Resist Newsletter, May/June 1991. "Labour Programs: A Challenging Partnership," Labour/Le Travail, Spring 1991. "Canada at a Crossroads," Dollars & Sense, March 1991. "Feminist Perspective on the Design of Computer Communications Networks: An Alternative Design Strategy," Information Systems, Work and Organizational Design, eds P. van den Besselaar, et. al., Elsevier Science Publisher, Amsterdam, 1990. "Collaboration with the Wider Community," Muse, Fall 1989. "Labour and Technology," Ethics and Technology, eds Jorge Nef, Jokelee Vanderkop, Henry Wiseman, Wall and Thompson, Toronto, 1989. "How Jobs are Changing, Where Jobs are Going, Who Controls Technology," Union Strategies For a High Tech Era, Institute of Industrial Relations, UCLA, 1989. "Women Changing Technology Changing Women," Surviving and Thriving, Women in Trades and Technology Conference Proceedings, Winlaw, BC 1988. "Le mouvement syndical et le Parti travailliste en Colombie Britannique, une transformation dynamique," Syndicalisme et Société: Rapports Nouveaux? eds Jacques Desmarais, Presses de l'Université du Québec, Sillery, Québec, 1988. "Workers' Control at BC Telephone: The Shape of Things to Come?" Workers, Capital, and the State in British Columbia, edited by Rennie Warburton and David Coburn, UBC Press, Vancouver, 1988. "Putting the Irish Back into Boycotts," New Directions, Vol.3, No. 2, Nov./Dec. 1987. "le NPD et le mouvement syndical en Colombie-Britannique," Notes de recherche, Centrale de l'enseignement du Québec (CEQ), Québec, 1987. "A Union Course on New Technology," Alternatives, Vol.14, No.3/4, Aug./Sept. 1987. "New Initiatives, New Technology, New Labour," Work and New Technologies: Other Perspectives edited by Chris DeBresson, Margaret Lowe Benston, Jesse Vorst, Society for Socialist Studies, Toronto, 1987. "The Future of Labour," in After Bennett, eds Magnusson et al., New Star Books, Vancouver, October 1986 Case Studies on New Technologies in Five British Columbia Workplaces, with Ken Hansen, BC Federation of Labour, August, 1986. A Guide to Labour Records and Resources in British Columbia, Louise May, Compiler, coinvestigator with George Brandak and Mark Thompson, Special Collections Division, UBC Library, Vancouver, October 1985. "Science, Technology and Progress: Lessons from the History of the Typewriter," Canadian Woman Studies Journal, Fall 1984. "Last Back: Folklore and the Telephone Operators in the 1919 Vancouver General Strike," Not Just Pin Money, Barbara Latham and Roberta Pazdro, eds, Camosun College, Victoria, BC, 1984. "Recipe for Anarchy: Tech Change at BC Telephone," Canadian Dimension, Vol. 18, No. 22, May 1984. "Technological Impact: The Hidden Bias in Machine Design," Proceedings of the First National Conference for Women in Science and Technology, Vancouver, 1983. "Towards a History of the BC CCF," series of 18 articles, Democrat, May 1980-83. "The First 80 Years," International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 213, Livewire, Vol.XXXIII, No. 1, November 1981. "Women and the Microelectronics Revolution," Priorities, Vol.IX, No. 5, Sept./Oct.1981. "The Ties that Bind, CLC's Silver Jubilee," Democrat, May 1981. "Five Days that Shook BC Tel," Democrat, March 1981. "A University At War: Japanese Canadians at UBC During World War II," BC Studies, No. 35, Autumn 1977. Papers Presented and Lectures: "What's Right and What's Wrong with the U.S. Economy and What Does It Mean for the Future of Organized Labor," ABET (Brazilian Assocation for the Study of Labor), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 12, 1997. "Why Government Matters," Public Employees Department AFL-CIO Convention, Hersey, Pennsylvannia, September 8, 1997 "Back to the Future: Privatization and Police and Why We Have a Public Sector," Canadian Police Assocation Convention, Charlottetown, PEI, August 27, 1997. "Ensuring Monitoring Is Not Coopted," A Forum on Independent Monitoring, National Labor Committee, Queens College, NY, April 4, 1997. "What Reinventing Government Means for Public Safety Workers," National Association of Police Organizations Convention, Dallas, TX, August 18, 1996. "Immunization for Privatization in Health Care," British Columbia Nurses' Union, Annual Convention, Delta Hotel, Richmond, BC, June 10, 1996. "Changing Work for Health," Business and Health Care: A Work and Health Perspective, Royal York Hotel, Toronto, May 1 & 2, 1996. "Public Sector Workers in Reinventing Government," The Economic Summit, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, April 16 - 17, 1996. "Unions that Move Forward and Unions that Do Not," Communications, Energy and Paper Workers Union, National Educational Conference, Royal York Hotel, Toronto, November 18, 1995. "Public Service Delivery: A US-Canada Comparison," In the Public Interest: The Value of Public Service, Chateau Laurier, August 30 - September 1, 1995 "Strategic Planning for Unions," Convention of the Ohio Civil Service Employees Assocation, Columbus, Ohio, July 17, 1995 "Limitations of the Wagner Act Framework," Lecture, Visiting Scholar Program, Industrial Relations Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, May 18, 1995 "The New Unionism: Challenges and Opportunities," National Education Association Organizers Seminar, Sanabel Island, FL, May 9, 1996. "Notes on the Prospect of Labor Law Reform in the US and What Failure to Reform Means for Workplace Organizational Change," International Conference - Europe/US, Rome, December 12/13, 1994 "Technological Change and Work Reorganization in Education," American Federation of Teachers Convention, Paraprofessional School-Related Personnel Division, Anaheim, July 16, 1994. "Health Care Reform: The Single Payer Option," Eastern Washington University, Spokane, WA, June 28, 1994. "Union Democracy and Workplace Democracy," Democracy or Disintegration? Restoring the Quality of Union Life, The Association for Union Democracy 25th Anniversary Conference, New York University, New York City, June 10-12, 1994. "Labour and Politics: The Long View," Keynote, Saskatchewan Federation of Labour Political Action Conference, May 30-31, 1994. "What's the Matter with NAFTA," Economic Integration and Public Policy: NAFTA, the EC and Beyond, York University, North York, Ontario, May 27-29, 1994. "Creating a Peace and Justice Society," Center for Constitutional Rights Forum, Schomburg Center, Harlem New York, May 21, 1994. "Change as a Catalyst: Towards a New Continuing Higher Education," Keynote, Canadian Association of University Continuing Studies Conference, Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre, Vancouver, May 13-16, 1994. "La situation americaine," La Representation: Miroir ou Mirage de la Democratie au Travail? 49 Industrial Relations Conference, Universite Laval, Quebec, May 2-3, 1994. "Transforming Education and Work: School to Work to School," Keynote, Tech Prep Conference, Austin, Texas, March 30, 1994. "U.S., Canada and Mexico: Forging Economic Ties within a Framework of Continental Diversity," 1994 Netter Seminar, Cornell University, Cornell Club, New York City, February 2-4, 1994. "A View from the North: A Comparative Analysis Between the United States, Canadian and European Labor Policies and Practices," The Future of Worker-Management Relations, Pittsburg, November 10, 1993. "Local Organizing in a Global Context," Reinventing the City: The City and Socioeconomic Policy in the 1990s, Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York, October 15, 1993. "NAFTA and Canada," Harvard Alumni Association, University of Quebec at Montreal, September 20, 1993. "Labor Organizing Strategies in the US," New South Wales Labour Council Seminar, Sydney, Australia, August 26, 1993. "US Enterprise Bargaining and Organizing Strategies," Australia Council of Trade Unions Conference, Sydney, Australia, August 31, 1993. "The Changing Face of Industrial Relations in the US," Evatt Foundation, Sydney, Australia, September 2, 1993. "Free Trade Is It Fair? Do We Want NAFTA?" J. Herbert Hollomon Memorial Symposium, MIT, April 27, 1993. "Total Quality Management Is Mostly About Management," State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, April 22, 1993. "Affirmative Action and Employment Equity," Witswatersrand University, South Africa, June 15-19, 1992. "Human Factors in Design: Putting People First," Science, Technology and Society Program,MIT, March 4, 1992. "Management Resistance to Change: Case Study Results in the Introduction of Computer Information Systems," Seminar in Political Economy, Economics Dept., Harvard Univ., Oct.23, 1990. "The Politics of Technology in Education," High Tech or Why Tech? Change, Education and Choices, Association for Higher Education/WA Education Association, Jan.26/27, 1990. "Taking Control of the Work Environment: A Changing Political Climate," Coalition of Labor Union Women, Los Angeles Chapter, January 20, 1990. "Information Technology: New Tools, Old Problems and New Possibilities for a Healthy Workplace," UCLA Occupational Health Center, January 19, 1990. "Feminist Perspectives on the Design of Computer Communications Networks: Alternative Design Strategies," Information System, Work and Organization Design, International Federation for Information Processing, Berlin, GDR, July 10-13, 1989. "Perspectives '89; Technology and Education," Keynote address, East Kootenay's Community College, Cranbrook, BC, April 28, 1989. "Learning to Live with Change," Keynote address, Vancouver Vocational Institute, Professional Development Day, Vancouver, April 14, 1989. "A Social Agenda for Labour," Keynote address, Bargaining for Washington Families, Washington State Labor Council, Women's Committee Conference, Seattle, March 10-11, 1989. "Countering the Arguments Against Pay Equity," Keynote address, BC Federation of Labour, Women's Conference, Vancouver, March 4, 1989. "The Role of Canadians in the Third World," Dialogue for Development Symposium, Change for Children, Edmonton, University of Alberta, February 11, 1989. "Introducing Technology to Promote Job Satisfaction and Productivity," Changing Technologies in the Workplace, California Policy Seminar, UCLA, Los Angeles, Dec 2, 1988. "Correctional Education and the New Vocations," Keynote address, Correctional Education Association 1988 Region IV Conference, Ramada Renaissance Hotel, Vancouver October 1988. "Will Women Change Technology or will Technology Change Women?" Keynote address, Surviving and Thriving, Women in Trades and Technology, National Conference, Naramata BC, October 1988. "Engineering Ethics: Social Choices and Obligations with New Technology," Ethnics Retreat, Faculty of Engineering Science, SFU., Bowen Island, January 1988. "Le mouvement syndical et le parti travailliste en C.B.: un transformation dynamique," Syndicalisme et société: Rapports nouveau, L'association d'economie politique, UQAM, Montréal, October 1987. "The Human Side of Introducing New Technology," and "Overcoming Fear of Micros," Interface 87, Hotel Meridien, Vancouver, Oct. 1987. "Historical Origins and Uses of the Boycott," Building On Our Roots Conference, BC Federation of Labour, Vancouver, Sept.1987. "Job Security and Technological Change," Union Operations, Niagara Institute, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, June 1987. "Disenfranchised in the Information Age?" BC Library Association, Spring Conference, Vancouver, May 1986. "User-Driven Design Method: Problems in Design Methodology," Centre for Advanced Resources Technologies (CART), Prince George, April 1986. "Centralizing and Decentralizing Trends in the New Technology," Designing Our Own Future Conference, Vancouver, March 12-15, 1986. "Impact of Technology on Society," Department of Civil Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, October 1985. "Bias in Machine Design," Conference on Labour, Women and Technology, Inter-University Centre of Postgraduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, August 1985. "Union Labels, Boycotts and Beer: A Hundred Years of Organizing in the Brewery Industry," Pacific Northwest Labour History Conference, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, June 1985. "Getting Organized: The Future," First National Women's Conference, Public Service Alliance of Canada, Ottawa, March 1985. "Social Impact of New Technology," BC Research, Vancouver, January 1985. "Technological Change: Identification, Impacts and Responses," Keynote Address, Saskatchewan Federation of Labour Technological Change Conference, Saskatoon, November 1984. "The Challenge of the New Technology," Washington State Labour Council, AFL-CIO, Biennial Convention, Olympia, Washington, August 1984. "Science, Technology and Progress: Lessons from the History of the Typewriter," Pacific Northwest Labour History Conference, UBC, June 1984. "Information Technologies: The Sexist Bias in Machine Design," Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, Vancouver, November 1983. "Technological Change and the Crisis for Labour," Canadian Committee on Labour History, Learned Societies, UBC, June 1983. Research Grants and Funding Coinvestigator, with Richard Freeman, in a Ford Foundation Governance and Public Policy Program Grant for a "Harvard Trade Union Program Labor Leadership Forum." This will consist of a series of forums with union leaders, academics and social activists on public policy aimed at getting a better deal for the America worker. Total grant resided with the Trade Union Program is $ 385,297. (For two years beginning September 1996.) Mellon Foundation Sawyer Grant for "Societies in Transition" Seminar Series, Harvard University, co recipient with Professors Richard Freeman and John Womack. Total grant resided with the Trade Union Program $ 99,460. (Seminar to be completed Spring 1997.) Author of the Canadian Study for "Works Council Project," part of "Working and Earning Under Different Rules" project of Richard Freeman, Harvard University Economics Department and the National Bureau of Economic Research funded by the Ford Foundation. Project completed 1995. Coinvestigator with the Canadian Union of Public Employees in a Technological Impact Program (TIP) grant for a study of technological changes and their effect on library workers. Project completed August 1989. Total grant resided with Union $83,445. Coinvestigator with the BC Federation of Labour in two Technological Impact Research Fund Grants (TIRF) studies of the impact of technological change on the unionized worksites. These studies were conducted from 1985-1987. Total grant resided with Union $165,000. Coinvestigator with the Vancouver Typographical Union in a TIRF sponsored study of technological change in the printing industry in British Columbia. Study completed in March 1987. Total grant resided with Union $87,000. Coinvestigator with the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks in a TIRF study of the history and possible future impact of technological change at Canadian Pacific Air. Study completed June 1986. Total grant resided with Union $85,000. Conference Travel Grant from SSHRC was received to cover airfare and expenses for travel to Yugoslavia for the August 1985 conference on Women, Labour and Technology at the Inter-University Center for Postgraduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. Grant for $1,700. Principal Investigator in SSHRC Strategic grant under the Women and Work program, to research and write a history of women in unions in BC; From Ladies Auxiliaries to Feminist Unions, along with Dr. Louise May. Grant for $30,000. Grant completed 1995. Coordinator, Vancouver, Working Lives Collective. This group of nine faculty and graduate students from the History Departments of SFU and UBC was formed in 1984, in order to write and publish a book by and about working people in the city of Vancouver for the Centennial in 1986. Grant from City Centennial Commission $8,970. Coinvestigator, with Mark Thompson, UBC Faculty of Commerce, and George Brandak of UBC Main Library, Canadian Studies, Research Tools Program, to produce and publish an annotate guide to labour records and resources in BC. Project completed 1985. Total Grant resided at UBC $46,000. |