Working parents must arrange some type of care for their young children when they are away at work. For parents with unstable and unpredictable work schedules, the logistics of…
The COVID-19 pandemic brought public awareness to the vital role that front-line service sector workers play in our economy and daily lives. These workers did the essential and in…
The labor of workers in the retail and food service sector – employed at grocery stores, fast food and casual dining restaurants, in hardware and electronics, in retail and…
Each year, millions of U.S. workers experience the need for time away from work after welcoming a new child to
the family or because of a health or a caregiving need. However, the…
Service sector workers have been newly recognized as essential during the COVID-19 crisis. These frontline heroes have been essential to meeting our basic needs throughout the…
American policymakers have long focused on work as a key means to improve economic wellbeing. Yet, work has become increasingly precarious and polarized. This precarity is…
The Bay Area is a place of opportunity, but also a place of incredible inequality and deprivation. In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was being described as a “great equalizer…
The COVID-19 pandemic has made plain just how important the work of retail, grocery and food service workers is. Their jobs put them at greater risk now, but those same jobs were…
Service sector jobs in the United States are characterized by low pay, few fringe benefits, and limited employee control over scheduled work days and times. Many service sector…
Against the backdrop of a global health crisis, service-sector workers are newly visible. While millions of American workers have been instructed to stay home, workers in the…
