Annette Bernhardt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590431 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annette Bernhardt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annette |
| FAMILY NAME | Bernhardt |
| SIGNATURE | BERNHARDT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Annette Bernhardt is Director of the Technology and Work Program, UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education (Labor Center). Lisa Kresge is Lead Researcher of the Technology and Work Program, UC Berkeley Labor Center. Reem Suleiman is US Advocacy Lead at the Mozilla Foundation |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 174 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Independent Contracting, Self-Employment, and Gig Work
The authors use de-identified data from California personal income tax returns to measure the frequency and nature of independent contracting and self-employment in California. They identify this work by the presence of a Schedule C on the tax return and/or the receipt of a Form 1099 information return. The authors estimate that 14.4% of California workers aged 18 to 64 in tax year 2016 had some independent contracting or self-employment income a…
The Data-Driven Workplace and the Case for Worker Technology Rights
Employers increasingly use digital technologies in the workplace to capture and analyze worker data, electronically monitor their workers, and manage them using algorithms. In this article, the authors analyze employers' use of data-driven systems in a diverse set of industries and identify a range of potential harms to workers, including bias and discrimination, de-skilling, unsafe work speeds, and loss of autonomy and dignity. In light of the c…
Organizing for Good Jobs
Over the past several decades, there has been a remarkable surge of economic justice organizing across the country. The goal of this article is to examine these efforts and provide a framework for understanding their potential, their limitations, and their future. In what follows, the authors first describe five distinct organizing movements focused on low-wage work that have flourished in recent years. The authors then develop a framework for th…
All Work and No Pay
Despite three decades of scholarship on economic restructuring in the United States, employers' violations of minimum wage, overtime and other workplace laws remain understudied. This article begins to fill the gap by presenting evidence from a large-scale, original worker survey that draws on recent advances in sampling methodology to reach vulnerable workers. Our findings suggest that in America's three largest cities, violations of employment …
Employers Gone Rogue
Drawing on an innovative, representative survey of workers in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City, the authors analyze minimum wage, overtime, and other workplace violations in the low-wage labor market. They document significant interindustry variation in both the mix and the prevalence of violations, and they show that while differences in workforce composition are important in explaining that variation, differences in job and employer char…
The Role of Labor Market Regulation in Rebuilding Economic Opportunity in the United States
In the search for policy solutions to rising inequality and precariousness in the United States, this essay argues for the central role of labor market regulation. It presents research and policy evidence for a three-pronged approach: (a) strengthening the floor of labor standards (wages, health and safety, and right to organize chief among them); (b) vigorously enforcing that floor; and (c) leveraging government contracting and grants to build a…
On the Character and Organization of Unregulated Work in the Cities of the United States
In this article, we analyze the routine violations of employment and labor laws—what we call "unregulated work"—in New York City and Chicago. In these jobs workers are paid less than the minimum wage, are subject to unsafe working conditions, and are fired for attempting to organize. These violations have become a routine part of the organization of production in industries that range from restaurants to construction to laundries to child care. U…
Divergent Paths
In the contemporary uncertain labour market situation, the tradition of upward mobility, or the chance for all workers to improve their earnings, may be a thing of the past in the United States of America (USA). In a competitive economic environment, many companies that once offered the opportunity for advancement to workers, have reinvented themselves as leaner enterprises with more flexible work forces. This publication presents empirical resea…
It's Not Just the ATMs
Using data from extensive on-site interviews conducted in 1997, 1998, and 1999, the authors examine trends in job content and earnings in selected jobs in two American banks. Firm restructuring and technological changes resulted in higher earnings for college-educated workers. The banks followed different strategies in implementing these changes for lower-skill jobs, with different effects on bank tellers in particular. The authors conclude that …
Working in the Service Society
Preface 1. Service Society and the Changing Experience of Work Cameron Lynne Macdonald and Carmen Sirianni Part I: Management Control of the New Labor Process 2. Rethinking Questions of Control: Lessons from McDonald's Robin Leidner 3. Politics of Service Production: Route Sales Work in the Potato-Chip Industry Steven H. Lopez 4. Consumers' Reports: Management by Customers in a Changing Economy Linda Fuller and Vicki Smith 5. Service with a Smile…
Percentages, Odds, and the Meaning of Inequality
In Search of the High Road in a Low-Wage Industry
When faced with rising wage inequality and large numbers of low-wage jobs, policy makers are increasingly looking to innovations in the business community for solutions. Advocates argue that “high performance systems” will both strengthen the competitiveness of American firms and improve the quality of jobs. But the proposed benefits for workers remain largely untested. Drawing on a series of case studies, we therefore examine the effect of firm …
Women's Gains or Men's Losses? A Closer Look at the Shrinking Gender Gap in Earnings
The recent closing of the gender wage gap is often attributed to increases in women's human capital. This explanation neglects the effect of growing inequality in men's earnings. The authors develop a decomposition that allows them to test how distributional changes in men's and women's earnings combine to yield changes in women's economic status. Using Current Population Survey data from 1967 to 1987, the authors find that the striking polarizat…
Economic Inequality
Two positions dominate the debate over the recent increases in economic inequality in the United States. The job-skill mismatch thesis attributes rising inequality to growth in the number of high-skill, high-wage jobs that leaves less-skilled workers behind. The thesis, in contrast, argues that the service shift generates growth in the number of both high-wage and low-wage jobs, and declines in the middle. Standard summary measures of distributio…
Women's Gains or Men's Losses? A Closer Look at the Shrinking Gender Gap in Earnings
The recent closing of the gender wage gap is often attributed to increases in women's human capital. This explanation neglects the effect of growing inequality in men's earnings. The authors develop a decomposition that allows them to test how distributional changes in men's and women's earnings combine to yield changes in women's economic status. Using Current Population Survey data from 1967 to 1987, the authors find that the striking polarizat…
Economic Inequality
Two positions dominate the debate over the recent increases in economic inequality in the United States. The job-skill mismatch thesis attributes rising inequality to growth in the number of high-skill, high-wage jobs that leaves less-skilled workers behind. The thesis, in contrast, argues that the service shift generates growth in the number of both high-wage and low-wage jobs, and declines in the middle. Standard summary measures of distributio…
The Role of Labor Market Regulation in Rebuilding Economic Opportunity in the United States
In the search for policy solutions to rising inequality and precariousness in the United States, this essay argues for the central role of labor market regulation. It presents research and policy evidence for a three-pronged approach: (a) strengthening the floor of labor standards (wages, health and safety, and right to organize chief among them); (b) vigorously enforcing that floor; and (c) leveraging government contracting and grants to build a…
It's Not Just the ATMs
Using data from extensive on-site interviews conducted in 1997, 1998, and 1999, the authors examine trends in job content and earnings in selected jobs in two American banks. Firm restructuring and technological changes resulted in higher earnings for college-educated workers. The banks followed different strategies in implementing these changes for lower-skill jobs, with different effects on bank tellers in particular. The authors conclude that …
In Search of the High Road in a Low-Wage Industry
When faced with rising wage inequality and large numbers of low-wage jobs, policy makers are increasingly looking to innovations in the business community for solutions. Advocates argue that “high performance systems” will both strengthen the competitiveness of American firms and improve the quality of jobs. But the proposed benefits for workers remain largely untested. Drawing on a series of case studies, we therefore examine the effect of firm …
Employers Gone Rogue
Drawing on an innovative, representative survey of workers in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City, the authors analyze minimum wage, overtime, and other workplace violations in the low-wage labor market. They document significant interindustry variation in both the mix and the prevalence of violations, and they show that while differences in workforce composition are important in explaining that variation, differences in job and employer char…
On the Character and Organization of Unregulated Work in the Cities of the United States
In this article, we analyze the routine violations of employment and labor laws—what we call "unregulated work"—in New York City and Chicago. In these jobs workers are paid less than the minimum wage, are subject to unsafe working conditions, and are fired for attempting to organize. These violations have become a routine part of the organization of production in industries that range from restaurants to construction to laundries to child care. U…
The Data-Driven Workplace and the Case for Worker Technology Rights
Employers increasingly use digital technologies in the workplace to capture and analyze worker data, electronically monitor their workers, and manage them using algorithms. In this article, the authors analyze employers' use of data-driven systems in a diverse set of industries and identify a range of potential harms to workers, including bias and discrimination, de-skilling, unsafe work speeds, and loss of autonomy and dignity. In light of the c…
Organizing for Good Jobs
Over the past several decades, there has been a remarkable surge of economic justice organizing across the country. The goal of this article is to examine these efforts and provide a framework for understanding their potential, their limitations, and their future. In what follows, the authors first describe five distinct organizing movements focused on low-wage work that have flourished in recent years. The authors then develop a framework for th…
Independent Contracting, Self-Employment, and Gig Work
The authors use de-identified data from California personal income tax returns to measure the frequency and nature of independent contracting and self-employment in California. They identify this work by the presence of a Schedule C on the tax return and/or the receipt of a Form 1099 information return. The authors estimate that 14.4% of California workers aged 18 to 64 in tax year 2016 had some independent contracting or self-employment income a…
Working in the Service Society
Preface 1. Service Society and the Changing Experience of Work Cameron Lynne Macdonald and Carmen Sirianni Part I: Management Control of the New Labor Process 2. Rethinking Questions of Control: Lessons from McDonald's Robin Leidner 3. Politics of Service Production: Route Sales Work in the Potato-Chip Industry Steven H. Lopez 4. Consumers' Reports: Management by Customers in a Changing Economy Linda Fuller and Vicki Smith 5. Service with a Smile…
Percentages, Odds, and the Meaning of Inequality
Economic Inequality
Two positions dominate the debate over the recent increases in economic inequality in the United States. The job-skill mismatch thesis attributes rising inequality to growth in the number of high-skill, high-wage jobs that leaves less-skilled workers behind. The thesis, in contrast, argues that the service shift generates growth in the number of both high-wage and low-wage jobs, and declines in the middle. Standard summary measures of distributio…
Women's Gains or Men's Losses? A Closer Look at the Shrinking Gender Gap in Earnings
The recent closing of the gender wage gap is often attributed to increases in women's human capital. This explanation neglects the effect of growing inequality in men's earnings. The authors develop a decomposition that allows them to test how distributional changes in men's and women's earnings combine to yield changes in women's economic status. Using Current Population Survey data from 1967 to 1987, the authors find that the striking polarizat…
Percentages, Odds, and the Meaning of Inequality
In Search of the High Road in a Low-Wage Industry
When faced with rising wage inequality and large numbers of low-wage jobs, policy makers are increasingly looking to innovations in the business community for solutions. Advocates argue that “high performance systems” will both strengthen the competitiveness of American firms and improve the quality of jobs. But the proposed benefits for workers remain largely untested. Drawing on a series of case studies, we therefore examine the effect of firm …
Working in the Service Society
Preface 1. Service Society and the Changing Experience of Work Cameron Lynne Macdonald and Carmen Sirianni Part I: Management Control of the New Labor Process 2. Rethinking Questions of Control: Lessons from McDonald's Robin Leidner 3. Politics of Service Production: Route Sales Work in the Potato-Chip Industry Steven H. Lopez 4. Consumers' Reports: Management by Customers in a Changing Economy Linda Fuller and Vicki Smith 5. Service with a Smile…
It's Not Just the ATMs
Using data from extensive on-site interviews conducted in 1997, 1998, and 1999, the authors examine trends in job content and earnings in selected jobs in two American banks. Firm restructuring and technological changes resulted in higher earnings for college-educated workers. The banks followed different strategies in implementing these changes for lower-skill jobs, with different effects on bank tellers in particular. The authors conclude that …
Divergent Paths
In the contemporary uncertain labour market situation, the tradition of upward mobility, or the chance for all workers to improve their earnings, may be a thing of the past in the United States of America (USA). In a competitive economic environment, many companies that once offered the opportunity for advancement to workers, have reinvented themselves as leaner enterprises with more flexible work forces. This publication presents empirical resea…
On the Character and Organization of Unregulated Work in the Cities of the United States
In this article, we analyze the routine violations of employment and labor laws—what we call "unregulated work"—in New York City and Chicago. In these jobs workers are paid less than the minimum wage, are subject to unsafe working conditions, and are fired for attempting to organize. These violations have become a routine part of the organization of production in industries that range from restaurants to construction to laundries to child care. U…
The Role of Labor Market Regulation in Rebuilding Economic Opportunity in the United States
In the search for policy solutions to rising inequality and precariousness in the United States, this essay argues for the central role of labor market regulation. It presents research and policy evidence for a three-pronged approach: (a) strengthening the floor of labor standards (wages, health and safety, and right to organize chief among them); (b) vigorously enforcing that floor; and (c) leveraging government contracting and grants to build a…
All Work and No Pay
Despite three decades of scholarship on economic restructuring in the United States, employers' violations of minimum wage, overtime and other workplace laws remain understudied. This article begins to fill the gap by presenting evidence from a large-scale, original worker survey that draws on recent advances in sampling methodology to reach vulnerable workers. Our findings suggest that in America's three largest cities, violations of employment …
Employers Gone Rogue
Drawing on an innovative, representative survey of workers in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City, the authors analyze minimum wage, overtime, and other workplace violations in the low-wage labor market. They document significant interindustry variation in both the mix and the prevalence of violations, and they show that while differences in workforce composition are important in explaining that variation, differences in job and employer char…
Organizing for Good Jobs
Over the past several decades, there has been a remarkable surge of economic justice organizing across the country. The goal of this article is to examine these efforts and provide a framework for understanding their potential, their limitations, and their future. In what follows, the authors first describe five distinct organizing movements focused on low-wage work that have flourished in recent years. The authors then develop a framework for th…
Independent Contracting, Self-Employment, and Gig Work
The authors use de-identified data from California personal income tax returns to measure the frequency and nature of independent contracting and self-employment in California. They identify this work by the presence of a Schedule C on the tax return and/or the receipt of a Form 1099 information return. The authors estimate that 14.4% of California workers aged 18 to 64 in tax year 2016 had some independent contracting or self-employment income a…
The Data-Driven Workplace and the Case for Worker Technology Rights
Employers increasingly use digital technologies in the workplace to capture and analyze worker data, electronically monitor their workers, and manage them using algorithms. In this article, the authors analyze employers' use of data-driven systems in a diverse set of industries and identify a range of potential harms to workers, including bias and discrimination, de-skilling, unsafe work speeds, and loss of autonomy and dignity. In light of the c…
Economics (13 works) · Labour economics (9 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Wage (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works)