Precarious Work Schedules as a Source of Economic Insecurity and Institutional Distrust

Work schedules may fuel precariousness among U.S. workers by undermining perceptions of security, both economic and societal. Volatile hours, limited schedule input, and short advance notice are all dimensions of precarious work schedules. Our analyses suggest that scheduling practices that introduce instability and unpredictability into workers’ lives undermine perceptions of security in unique ways for hourly and salaried workers. Although the data suggest that precarious scheduling practices are widespread in the labor market, workers who are black, young, and without a college degree appear to be at highest risk. The findings highlight the importance of examining constellations of scheduling practices and considering the direction of work-hour fluctuations when investigating the ramifications of today’s scheduling practices for quality of employment and quality of life

Policy Recommendations for Meeting the Grand Challenge to Reduce Extreme Economic Inequality

This brief was created forSocial Innovation for America’s Renewal, a policy conference organized by the Center for Social Development in collaboration with the American Academy of Social Work & Social Welfare, which is leading theGrand Challenges for Social Work initiative to champion social progress. The conference site includes links to speeches, presentations, and a full list of the policy briefs

sj-docx-1-wes-10.1177_09500170231218191 – Supplemental material for How Work Hour Variability Matters for Work-to-Family Conflict

Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-wes-10.1177_09500170231218191 for How Work Hour Variability Matters for Work-to-Family Conflict by Hyojin Cho, Susan J Lambert, Emily Ellis and Julia R Henly in Work, Employment and Society</p

Creating Social Reality: Informational Social Influence and the Content of Stereotypic Beliefs

Three experiments tested the hypothesis that comparison information about other people's stereotypic beliefs is used to validate personal beliefs about a target group. A simple manipulation of questionnaire items and their response scales, presented as part of a political opinion survey, served as social comparison information regarding beliefs about African Americans. The comparison information influenced participants' subsequently measured beliefs about group as well as their evaluation of a Black target. When provided with negative comparison information, participants reported more negative racial beliefs and a more negative evaluation of the Black target than when provided with positive feedback. Moreover; this effect depended on participants' initial stereotypic beliefs. Only participants with initially negative beliefs about the target group were influenced by the comparison information; participants with relatively positive beliefs were not.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/68405/2/10.1177_0146167296226005.pd