Phyllis Jeffrey

Oct 17, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Yannis Bougiatiotis |Lina Moe |Peter Dreier |Phyllis Jeffrey

An inventory of inequality (2022) | Quality Stock Arts / ShutterstockI know someone, a nurse, who doesn’t have health insurance. His employer, a staffing agency, bounces him from assignment to assignment—sometimes with only a day’s notice. Engaged in skilled care work that is profoundly dependent on the ability to maintain human relationships, he often finds himself treated more like a commodity than a care professional.

Oct 16, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Lina Moe |Yannis Bougiatiotis |Phyllis Jeffrey |Emma Slack-Jørgensen

Food delivery driver in traffic | Tricky_Shark / ShutterstockAsk any organizer and you’ll hear how hard it is to reach gig workers. These workers typically lack a physical place of work or regular schedule (though many work all the time), and their work is poorly measured in Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics datasets. The gig workers themselves agree this is a problem.