On April 29th, 2024, the Shift Project community gathered to learn about Peter Fuegel’s research on Fair Workweek.
Guest Speaker
Peter Fuegel is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations. His research examines working time as a lens on employment relations, job quality, social policy, and stratification. He is working on a book about the making of fair workweek laws with funding from the National Science Foundation. He has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago, where he worked with Susan Lambert on a series of organizational studies including the Stable Scheduling Study at Gap
Peter presented his work in a talk titled: “Making a Fair Workweek: The Origins, Form, and Politics of Scheduling Regulation.” Since 2014, US cities and states have experimented with ambitious scheduling regulations, often called fair workweek laws, that target large retailers and food and beverage chains. New comparative and historical research suggests that a broader approach—building solidarity across sectoral divides—is needed to make good on the promise of a fair workweek.
