Shift Alumni
Rebecca Wolfe received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco. Between 2024 and 2025 she worked for Shift as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. Rebecca’s research with the Shift Project centered on features of supportive or toxic workplaces for young workers, the role of retail and food service workers in neighborhoods and communities, and qualitative methods.
Email: rwolfe@hks.harvard.edu
Publications
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(Un)Supportive Workplaces: Experiences of Workplace Climate for Formerly Systems-Involved Young Workers
Read the Full Report By early adulthood, millions of young people have had early life experiences interacting with the juvenile…
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Inequalities At Work And The Toll Of COVID-19
Workplaces shape risk for exposure to COVID-19 through on-site safety practices, including the provision and required use of personal protective…
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Losing Sleep over Work Scheduling?: The Relationship between Work Schedules and Sleep Quality for Service Sector Workers
Work schedules in the service sector are often unstable and unpredictable. Chronic uncertainty about the timing of work shifts impedes…