Carriage House Plans: Labor Works

Labor Works

Eileen Appelbaum has 20 years of experience carrying out empirical research on workplace practices and labor-management cooperation. Her research focuses on work processes and work-life practices of organizations and their implications for organizational effectiveness and for the quality of jobs. She has published widely on workforce, employment, and labor market issues and on the labor market experiences of women. Recent reports examine employers' experiences with turnover and leave in California and in New Jersey. Her current research focuses on low-wage work in the US and Europe; on work processes and quality of care in child care, elder care and health are; and on policies and practices that facilitate the work and family lives of workers. Publications include the co-edited volume, Low Wage America: How Employers Are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace (2003) and the coauthored books, Manufacturing Advantage: Why Higher Performance Work Systems Pay Off(2000) and The New American Workplace: Transforming Work Systems in the US(1994), all three of which were selected by Princeton University as Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics. She has published widely in books and journals on wage and employment trends in industrialized countries and on the workplace and work-life practices of firms, including in Industrial Relations, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, British Journal of Industrial Relations, and International Labour Review.