An LA Times article citing Nik Theodore highlighted the need for construction workers to rebuild Los Angeles after devastating fires tore through communities, and how the Trump administration’s threat to deport millions of…
A Forbes article on how workplace injuries at Amazon led to holiday strikes cited CUED’s report Pain Points: Data on Work Intensity, Monitoring, and Health at Amazon Warehouses, co-authored by Beth Gutelius and…
In an article covering the results of a survey of Mexican-born seniors, the North Bay Business Journal included a quote from CUED’s Nik Theodore about widespread insecurity among this population.
An in-depth article on the booming construction industry in Florida by the Miami Herald cites research that was a collaboration between CUED and WeCount, a worker-led organization in Miami.
CUED director Nik Theodore was quoted in an article about Behind the Skylines: Labor Conditions in South Florida’s Commercial Construction Industry, a report released by WeCount!, that shows that Florida construction workers face a…
CUED research director Beth Gutelius was quoted in an article covering Amazon workers’ demand for a $25 base wage, and the article also uses data from two reports co-authored by Gutelius and Sanjay…
An article in Supply Chain Brain, an industry news site, quoted CUED’s report on monitoring and injury at Amazon, authored by Beth Gutelius and Sanjay Pinto.
The study was conducted in collaboration with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. https://www.latimes.com/espanol/california/articulo/2024-08-15/para-los-inmigrantes-la-vejez-llega-sin-protecciones-activistas-se-dirigen-a-mexico-para-pedir-estipendios
News outlet Prism published an article on the economic struggles faced by Amazon warehouse workers, quoting Sanjay Pinto and the recent CUED report, Handling Hardship: Data on Economic Insecurity Among Amazon Warehouse Workers.
An article by Bloomberg quotes CUED researchers Beth Gutelius and Sanjay Pinto, who published Handling Hardship: Data on Economic Insecurity Among Amazon Workers, a report showing widespread financial strain among the company’s workforce.
For Immediate Release Press Contact: cued@uic.edu (Chicago, IL) – Today, the Center for Urban Economic Development (CUED) at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) released a new report detailing the results of a…
Beth Gutelius, research director at CUED and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, penned a brief entitled Good Labor Policy Is Good Technology Policy: Worker Voice in Technological Change, in which she urges…
An article about reparations as a counterweight to the “war on drugs” in Nonprofit Quarterly cites Survival Economies: Black Informality in Chicago, a 2021 report by CUED Director Nik Theodore.
CUED research director Beth Gutelius was quoted in a Forbes article entitled Understanding the Dark Side of the World’s Most Valuable Firms, on the responsibilities that high-value firms have to society.
A City & State article quoted the CUED-authored report Pain Points: Data on Work Intensity, Monitoring, and Health at Amazon Warehouses in an article about injury rates among New York warehouse workers.
A CUED-authored report on working conditions in Amazon warehouses was cited in a Common Dreams article examining the company’s use of technology to monitor its workforce, which French regulators call “excessive.”
The London Free Press cited CUED’s 2023 report, Pain Points: Data on Work Intensity, Monitoring, and Health at Amazon’s Warehouses, in an article about warehouse worker safety in Ontario, Canada.
CUED researchers Beth Gutelius and Sanjay Pinto were quoted in a Bloomberg article about their new report, based on the broadest and most representative survey of Amazon workers to date. The report found…
A new report by CUED researchers Beth Gutelius and Sanjay Pinto presents findings on a large-scale survey of Amazon warehouse workers. Executive Summary The leading online retailer in the United States by some…
Nik Theodore, UPP distinguished professor and Center for Urban Economic Development director, and Beth Gutelius, CUED research director, provide perspective on job quality, worker safety and neighborhood disinvestment in a Chicago Tribune story…
In a Washington Post article about construction companies using robots, Nik Theodore, UIC professor and head of urban planning and policy and director of UIC Center for Urban Economic Development, comments on the…
Comments from CUED Research Director Beth Gutelius are featured in a Chicago Tribune article discussing the impact of Amazon delaying the opening of a warehouse in West Humboldt Park.
David López-García, senior research fellow at the Center for Urban Economic Development, wrote the Nexos op-ed to highlight the challenges facing policymakers as manufacturing relocates to Mexico from China.
Beth Gutelius, research director of the Center for Urban Economic Development at UIC, was interviewed in a Washington Post article on the growing role of warehouse robots at companies such as Amazon and…
UIC associate professors of urban planning and policy Kate Lowe, Stacey Sutton and Nebiyou Tilahun co-authored a Chicago Sun-Times op-ed calling for a more equitable and effective approach to Chicago traffic safety in advance…
Beth Gutelius, research director of the Center for Urban Economic Development, spoke to the Seattle Times about the use of automation and robotics to increase the pace of work in warehouses and the risks…
Beth Gutelius, research director for the Center for Urban Economic Development at UIC, was a featured expert during a Wall Street Journal online event on the global supply chain.
Comments from Beth Gutelius, research director for the Center for Urban Economic Development, are featured in a Los Angeles Times article about the possible need to adjust warehouse and factory emergency response plans…
A Newsweek report on the tornado striking an Amazon delivery center in southern Illinois last week features analysis from Beth Gutelius, research director for the Center for Urban Economic Development at UIC and senior…
An article from The New Yorker on migrant laborers who travel to areas impacted by climate disasters cites research from Nik Theodore, UIC professor and head of urban planning and policy, director of…
Comments from Beth Gutelius, research director for the Center for Urban Economic Development at UIC are cited in a Los Angeles Times story regarding the working conditions and high temperatures at a Rite…
A Chicago Tribune article on unionization efforts at Goose Island Brewery features comments from Nik Theodore, director of the Center for Urban Economic Development, who addresses employers’ responses to union drives.
Nik Theodore, UIC professor and head of urban planning and policy, director of the Center for Urban Economic Development and fellow at the Great Cities Institute, is quoted in an online story from NBC…
A New York Times article about a new California law that requires warehouses like Amazon to disclose quotas and work speed metrics to employees and government agencies includes comments from Beth Gutelius, research director for…
Beth Gutelius, research director for the Center for Urban Economic Development at UIC and senior research specialist with the Great Cities Institute at UIC, addresses warehouse work surveillance in comments featured in a Los…
NPR Illinois interviewed Beth Gutelius, research director for the Center for Urban Economic Development at UIC, in a story about Illinois maintaining pandemic-enhanced weekly unemployment benefits as business leaders point to a labor…
In an op-ed published by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Beth Gutelius, research director for the Center for Urban Economic Development at UIC and senior researcher with the Great Cities Institute at UIC, and Nik…
WHTM-TV, the ABC affiliate in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, interviewed Beth Gutelius, research director in the Center for Urban Economic Development at UIC and senior researcher at the Great Cities Institute at UIC, in a…
Nik Theodore, UIC professor and head of urban planning and policy, director of the Center for Urban Economic Development and fellow at the Great Cities Institute, was a featured expert during a WTTW-TV…
A Palm Beach Post article about COVID-19’s impact on day labor programs includes comments and research from Nik Theodore, UIC professor and head of the Department of Urban Planning and Policy, as well…
In a story from The Verge about the unionization effort at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, Beth Gutelius, research director of CUED, says the union push and other Amazon protests stem from longstanding…
A WBEZ story features a report written by Nik Theodore, UIC professor and head of urban planning and policy, director of the Center for Urban Economic Development and fellow at the Great Cities…
A story exploring the future of work in California and the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the state’s job market includes comments and co-authored research from Beth Gutelius, research director of the Center for…
A NBC Nightly News story on the risks faced by warehouse workers during the holiday season includes comments from Nik Theodore, UIC professor and head of urban planning and policy, director of the…
A WBEZ story on warehouse and factory workers seeking priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine includes comments from Nik Theodore, UIC professor and head of urban planning and policy, director of the Center…
A WBEZ story about a Woods Funds grant for six grassroots organizations to collaborate and develop strategies to transform neighborhoods on Chicago’s South and West sides includes comments from Stacey Sutton, UIC associate…
A Chicago Tribune story on fraudulent claims for unemployment benefits in Illinois includes comments from Nik Theodore, UIC professor and head of urban planning and policy, director of the Center for Urban Economic…
In a co-authored cover story for the Stanford Social Innovation Review winter issue, Beth Gutelius, research director of the Center for Urban Economic Development at UIC , writes that the COVID-19 pandemic has…
Rachel Weber, UIC professor of urban planning and policy, is quoted in a story co-published by Pro Publica and Block Club Chicago that examines decades of failed efforts by the government and private…
A Vox story about how the holiday shopping season will look very different this year, with consumers shifting from in-store store shopping to purchasing online, includes comments from Beth Gutelius on the impacts…
A Better Government Association-WBEZ investigative report on Amazon’s expansion in the Chicago region includes comments from Beth Gutelius, associate director of UIC’s Center for Urban Economic Development. Gutelius discusses wages for warehouse workers…
An article from the Seattle Times about Amazon’s turnover rate among front-line workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic features research from Beth Gutelius, associate director of UIC’s Center for Urban Economic Development, and Nik…
Day labor worker centers are responding to the twin public health and jobs crisis by providing cash aid and shifting to “virtual hiring halls.” https://nonprofitquarterly.org/nonprofits-pivot-to-develop-virtual-hiring-halls-for-day-laborers/
A WBEZ story about a survey of temporary warehouse and factory workers and their fears of getting COVID-19 includes comments from Nik Theodore, UIC professor and head of urban planning and policy and…
The Washington Post quotes Beth Gutelius, research director of the Center for Urban Economic Development and senior researcher at the Great Cities Institute at UIC, in a story on the pressure that warehouse…
A report by Beth Gutelius and Nik Theodore, research director and director of the Center for Urban Economic Development, respectively, was quoted in a story on warehouse development in Southern California in the…
Beth Gutelius, research director of the UIC Center for Urban Economic Development, is quoted in a National Geographic magazine feature article about the rise of robotics and its impact on human life. https://on.natgeo.com/3ayBNuu (subscription required)
Rachel Weber, UIC professor of urban planning and policy, is interviewed in a Chicago Sun-Times article on a potential surplus from $1.79 billion held by Chicago’s tax-increment financing districts that could be a…
An editorial from Nonprofit Quarterly magazine cites preliminary findings from a survey of day laborers during the COVID-19 pandemic that was conducted by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network in cooperation with Nik…
Comments from Stacey Sutton, UIC assistant professor of urban planning and policy, are included in a Crain’s Chicago Business article looking at the current and potential future impact of COVID and civil unrest…
In an opinion piece published by the Chicago Reporter, Rachel Weber, UIC professor of urban planning and policy, writes about the legacy of Chicago school closures in 2013 and how shuttered buildings could…
An article from Nonprofit Quarterly magazine details preliminary findings from a survey of day laborers during the COVID-19 pandemic that was conducted by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network in cooperation with Nik…
A Financial Times (UK) story on whether the coronavirus pandemic will help lead to higher wages for warehouse and delivery workers includes comments from Beth Gutelius, research director of the UIC Center for…
A new report by CUED researchers Beth Gutelius, Ph.D., and Nik Theodore, Ph.D., commissioned by the UC Berkeley Labor Center and Working Partnerships USA, examines whether technology and its effects on warehouse work…
