Work is a key social determinant of population health and well-being. Yet, efforts to improve
worker well-being in the United States are often focused on changing individual health …

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 …

Work schedules in the service sector are routinely unstable and unpredictable, and this
unpredictability may have harmful effects on health and economic insecurity. However …

In the retail and food service sectors, work schedules change from day-to-day and week-to-
week, often with little advanced notice, posing a potential impediment to healthy sleep …

Artificial intelligence has the potential to fundamentally reshape humanity's relationship with
labor. However, the development and deployment of workplace AI often lacks input from an …

Recent scholarship has documented the effects of unstable scheduling practices on worker
health and well-being, but there has been less research examining the intergenerational …

Background and Objectives A substantial portion of the service sector workforce is middle-
aged or older, but little is known about the scheduling conditions of these older workers. This …

This study examines the complex, nonlinear, and understudied relationship between
maternal employment, employment patterns, and four types of child maltreatment; describes …

Working longer–in the sense of choosing to delay retirement beyond traditional retirement
ages–is widely proposed as the best way for older Americans to boost their fragile retirement …

ABSTRACT I discuss recent books offering differing explanations for persistent US poverty.
Desmond (2023) argues that aid to low-income Americans is captured by more powerful …