Working professionals in the U.S. are taking on side jobs to supplement their incomes amid frozen salaries, inflation and fear of layoffs.

Alumna Alexandrea J. Ravenelle’s books on gig workers inspired key themes in Aziz Ansari’s new film.

Alumna Alexandrea J. Ravenelle’s books on gig workers inspired key themes in Aziz Ansari’s new film.

After faculty raised alarm over the board’s delay on the decisions, trustees finally debated and voted by email. A couple of them said they generally opposed tenure.

Faculty and Non-Faculty Appointment Personnel Actions Approved by the Board of Trustees on 06/04/2025 Promotions Conferring Tenure Brad Barlow College of Arts and Sciences Physics and Astronomy Kemal ...

UNC-Chapel Hill trustees didn't approve tenure cases outside of health-related schools at the last two meetings.

WRAL has obtained a letter from the faculty chair to the dean and chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill expressing concern about a lack of tenure for certain professors.

Employees of AmeriCorps who were put on administrative leave include all those who work for a national disaster response program.

A conversation with sociologist Alexandrea Ravenelle about her pandemic book, "Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times"

Sociologist Alexandrea Ravenelle studies the decline of the one-job era, and the rise of the gig economy. It's not good news for workers, she says.

With the rise of the gig economy, people are increasingly engaged in polyemployment – working multiple jobs – and with that comes new problems

The social safety net of unemployment assistance — which already had holes — is being shredded.

The Department of Sociology and the School of Data Science and Society (SDSS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invite applications for a primary tenure-track appointment as Assistant...

Alexandrea Ravenelle’s latest book explores how COVID-19 affected the most vulnerable wage-earners.