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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #47: Retail Hours, Wholesale Injustice
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Perhaps nothing demonstrates the precarity that low-wage workers experience more than the irregular work schedule. In many service jobs, workers might know what they will be paid per hour when they’re hired, but never know how many hours they will be working each week. The lack of stable hours means not just a wildly unstable in...