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…
The coronavirus outbreak has had a massive impact on public health and the economy. In the United States, the 25 million workers employed in the service sector have been hit…
Tipping Point Community partnered with sociologists and political scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Othering & Belonging Institute for a year-…
Staying home sick is a luxury that America’s retail and food service workers simply can’t afford, a situation that will only make the Coronavirus epidemic worse. Over the past…
The current health and economic crisis caused by the novel coronavirus COVID-19 is unfolding rapidly. Workers in the retail and food service sectors have been particularly hard…
Tipping Point Community partnered with sociologists and political scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Othering & Belonging Institute for a year-…
Unstable and unpredictable work schedules are associated with poor health outcomes in adults, complexity and informality in child care arrangements, and behavioral problems in…
