Background and Objectives A substantial portion of the service sector workforce is middle-aged or older, but little is known about the scheduling conditions of these older workers.
What happens to a society—and a planet—when capitalism outgrows democracy?
The downsides of density, including traffic congestion, contagious disease and crime, were common in Victorian London and classical Rome, just as they are today in Sao Paulo and Lagos.
Highlights • Fighting a pandemic in poor countries may involve not just a trade-off between lives and livelihoods, but an even more horrible trade-off between lives lost due to the pandemic and lives
High-cost financial services allow economically insecure families to make ends meet but often contribute to additional financial strain in the long run.
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on the important role that frontline retail, grocery, food service, and delivery workers play in the U.S.
Will the Opportunity Zones (OZ) program, America’s largest new place-based policy in decades, generate neighborhood change?
Existing research mainly analyzes mass attitudes towards the European Union (EU) from the national and individual-level perspective.
Vaccines are changing the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in grossly uneven ways. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face considerable obstacles in both receiving and distributing doses.
This article presents the findings for 11 cities across five geographical regions from a study led by Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, investigating the impacts of the COVID-1
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