Annette Bernhardt

Annette Bernhardt is director of the Technology and Work Program at the University of California, Berkeley Labor Center, and a senior researcher at Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. Previously, she was a visiting professor in the UC Berkeley Sociology Department, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and policy co-director at the National Employment Law Project. A leading scholar of low-wage work, Bernhardt has helped develop and analyze innovative policy responses to economic inequality, the restructuring of work, and technological change in the United States. Her current research focuses on the impact of artificial intelligence and other data-driven technologies on frontline workers, as well as public policy models for tech regulation. Bernhardt has authored multiple books and 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 her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1993.