Publications

I publish in academic journals, in policy reports, and in popular venues, in English and in Spanish — because research about working people should reach the communities whose lives it engages. If you can't access something behind a paywall, write to me and I'll gladly send you a copy.

Peer-reviewed articles

EN“Endemic Precarity: A Multi-Scalar Regime of Embodied Harm and Racialized Debilitation in Food Processing.” Agriculture and Human Values, forthcoming 2026.
EN“At the Intersection of Productive and Reproductive Labor: Latina Apple Packers' Pandemic Struggles.” Labor Studies Journal, 2026. doi:10.1177/0160449X261428707
EN“The Urgency and Limits of U.S. Labor Law Reform.” In “Is US Labor Law Reform Enough? A Conversation about the Clean Slate for Workers Power,” Labor Studies Journal 48(4), 2023.
EN“Chinese Contract Labor, the Corporeal Rift, and Ecological Imperialism in Peru's Nineteenth-Century Guano Boom.” With M. Betancourt, B. Clark, and J.B. Foster. The Journal of Peasant Studies 49(3), 2022.
EN“Persistent Unpredictability: Analyzing Experiences with the First Statewide Scheduling Legislation in Oregon.” With L. Petrucci, L. Stepick, and E. Scott. ILR Review 75(5), 2022.
EN“No Choice but to Be Essential: Expanding Dimensions of Precarity During COVID-19.” With L. Stepick, L. Petrucci, and E. Scott. Sociological Perspectives 64(5), 2021.
★ Distinguished Contribution Award, Pacific Sociological Association, 2022
EN“Impossible Choices: How Workers Manage Unpredictable Scheduling Practices.” With C. Alvarez, L. Petrucci, and E. Scott. Labor Studies Journal 45(2), 2020.

Book chapters

ES“Luchando en la intersección entre trabajo productivo y reproductivo.” En P. Varela (coord.), Luchas por la reproducción social: Mujeres en primera línea en un capitalismo en crisis. CEIL-CONICET, Buenos Aires, 2026 (en prensa).

Policy and research reports

EN“Listening to Wisconsin's Workers: A Cross-Sectoral Analysis of Health and Safety Challenges and Experiences.” UW–Madison and Wisconsin Department of Health Services, 2025.
EN“Wisconsin Workers' Compensation and Wisconsin Health and Safety.” With A. Kulwiec and A. Ibarra. UW–Madison and Wisconsin DHS, 2024.
EN“Overwork Impacts on Low-Wage Workers: Insights from the Food Manufacturing Sector in Oregon and Washington.” With L. Stepick and E. Keebone. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2023.
EN“A Labor Crisis within the Child Care Crisis.” With L. Petrucci, L. Dodson, M. King, and E. Scott. LERC, University of Oregon / Project for Middle Class Renewal, University of Illinois, 2022.
EN“Immigrants in the Oregon Workplace: Essential Work, COVID-19, and Strategies for Integration.” In B. Bussel (ed.), A State of Immigrants. LERC / Mellon Just Futures Initiative, 2021.
EN“Essential Work, Disposable Workers.” Labor Education and Research Center, University of Oregon, 2021.
EN“Combatting Unstable Schedules for Low-wage Workers in Oregon.” With L. Petrucci et al. Urban Institute, 2020.
EN“Fear at Work: An Inside Account of How Employers Threaten, Intimidate, and Harass Workers to Stop Them from Exercising Their Right to Collective Bargaining.” With G. Lafer. Economic Policy Institute, 2020.
EN“Assessing the Initial Impacts of the First Statewide Predictive Scheduling Law.” With L. Petrucci, E. Scott, and L. Stepick. Center for Popular Democracy, 2020.
EN“Unlawful: U.S. Employers Are Charged with Violating Federal Law in 41.5% of All Union Election Campaigns.” With C. McNicholas et al. Economic Policy Institute, 2019.

Public scholarship

ES“Recordando a Michael Burawoy.” Revista Común, 2025.
EN“How Does Worker Health and Safety Matter for Full Employment?” Q&A with L. Stepick. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2022.
EN“In-Home Childcare Providers are Essential — And Overworked, Underpaid, and Sometimes Not Paid at All.” With L. Petrucci et al. Scholars Strategy Network, 2021.
ES“Huelga feminista.” Glosario del Mundo del Trabajo, Jacobin América Latina, 2021.
ES“Trabajar con miedo: la precariedad migrante y sus emociones.” Entrevista, La Izquierda Diario, 2021.
EN“The New Emotional Hazards of the Workplace Under COVID-19.” With L. Petrucci, L. Stepick, and E. Scott. The Conversation, 2020.
EN“#ForeverEssential: What Does It Mean to Be a Low-wage Essential Worker in the Age of COVID-19?” With L. Petrucci, L. Stepick, and E. Scott. Scholars Strategy Network, 2020.
ES“Los límites de la retórica pro-migrantes: la persistencia del nacionalismo en el movimiento obrero estadounidense.” Revista Común, 2019.
ES“Para leer (contemporáneamente) a Marx.” With F. Rocca, J. Waiman, and E. Romero. Revista Márgenes, 2016.

Reviews and translations

ENReview of We Are the Union. American Journal of Sociology, forthcoming 2026.
ENReview: “Fighting the 'Immigrant Threat' Narrative.” Monthly Review 72(8), 2021.
ENTranslation: P. Varela, “Social Reproduction in Dispute: A Debate between Autonomists and Marxists.” Spectre Journal IV, 2021.

In the media

ENProPublica: “When Immigrant Dairy Farm Workers Get Hurt, Most Can't Rely on Workers' Compensation” (2023) and “Dairy Workers on Wisconsin's Small Farms Are Dying. Many of Those Deaths Are Never Investigated” (2023), by Melissa Sanchez and Maryam Jameel — featured expert.
ESRadio La Movida (con Voces de la Frontera): “Immigrants in Wisconsin,” 2024.