I am a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a researcher at the UC Berkeley Labor Center. My work examines how labor market institutions like unions shape job quality, worker power, and economic security in service industries.
My dissertation consists of three papers: a quantitative study of unions’ role in securing retirement benefits across labor market segments; a qualitative analysis of a successful insourcing campaign by service workers at a large public university; and a quantitative examination of wage penalties associated with outsourced work. Together, this research shows how employment structures and collective organization shape inequality and economic security.