Pregnant at Work: Low-Wage Workers, Power, and Temporal Injustice

Winner of the 2024 Senior Book Prize from the Association of Feminist Anthropology

A compelling analysis of social inequality through the perspective of pregnant, low-wage service workers

The low-wage service industry is one of the fastest-growing employment sectors in the US economy. Its workers disproportionately tend to be low-income and minority women. Service sector work entails rigid forms of temporal discipline manifested in work requirements for flexible, last-minute, and round-the-cl...