About

Peter Fugiel is a sociologist of work and organizations who studies job quality, labor standards, and work-life issues. He is writing a book about the making of fair workweek legislation in the United States. The book examines where fair workweek standards come from, how they develop, and what explains their relative success or failure in regulating scheduling in sectors such as retail and food service. This project is co-funded by the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and the Sociology Program of the National Science Foundation.

Fugiel (pronounced /fuːˈgɪːl/, rhymes with “New Deal”) has more than a decade of research experience in both applied and academic settings. While at the University of Chicago, he worked with Susan Lambert on innovative field research such as the Stable Scheduling Study—a randomized scheduling experiment at Gap, Inc. He also worked for NORC as a research assistant on government-sponsored projects such as the National Survey of Early Care and Education. His teaching includes graduate and undergraduate courses on the sociology of work-life, welfare states, and social theory. His research has been featured in popular media, scheduling legislation, and a National Academies of Sciences’ report on Measuring Alternative Work Arrangements for Research and Policy.

Fugiel received a PhD in Sociology and a BA in Philosophy and Allied Fields, both from the University of Chicago. Prior to his current fellowship at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois School of Labor and Employment Relations.