[Brownbag] Next Week's Colloquium: Annette Bernhardt, "Labor Standards and the Reorganization of Work: Gaps in Data and Research, " Monday, April 21, 2-3:30pm in 402 Barrows Hall (fwd)

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Sociology Colloquium of interest to Demography Brown Baggers:

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Subject: Next Week's Colloquium: Annette Bernhardt,
     "Labor Standards and the Reorganization of Work: Gaps in Data and Research,"
      Monday, April 21, 2-3:30pm in 402 Barrows Hall


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Labor Standards and the Reorganization of Work:  Gaps in Data and Research


A common but understudied argument is that the reorganization of work has
contributed to the deterioration of labor standards in the US over the past
four decades.  Yet existing aggregate data do not show a strong, unambiguous
increase in key measures of nonstandard work arrangements such as temp jobs,
part-time work and independent contracting; investigating a link to trends
in distributional wage outcomes is therefore premature.  Instead, this paper
identifies data gaps and research questions that need to be answered, in
order to better understand trends in workplace restructuring during the era
of growing wage inequality.



Annette Bernhardt is a visiting professor at the UC Berkeley sociology
department, as well as a visiting researcher at the Institute for Research
on Labor and Employment.  Previously she was policy co-director of the
National Employment Law Project, where she coordinated policy analysis and
research support for campaigns around living wage jobs, enforcement of
workers’ rights and accountable development. Her current research tracking
the low-wage recovery and growing inequality has received widespread media
coverage, and she has also been a leader in collaborating with immigrant
worker centers to develop innovative models of community-based research.
Bernhardt’s most recent book is the co-edited The Gloves-Off Economy:
Workplace Standards at the Bottom of America's Labor Market.  She has also
published widely in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, the
American Sociological Review, and the Journal of Labor Economics, among
others.  Bernhardt received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of
Chicago in 1993.



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