Faculty & Staff
Françoise Carré, PhD
- Research Director, Center for Social Policy
- Telephone: 617.287.5516
- Email: Francoise.Carre@umb.edu
Areas of Expertise
Labor economics and industrial relations, comparative employment systems, low wage employment
Degrees
PhD, Urban and Regional Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Additional Information
Carré conducts research on work transformation and nonstandard work in the U.S. and cross nationally. Recent projects include an evaluation of community-based staffing services (Mott Foundation) and a national study of retail employment (Russell Sage Foundation). She is an Affiliated Fellow, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UCLA, and at the Center for Women and Work, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick. Examples of her work include "Quelles Politiques pour la Citoyenneté au Travail?" in "Travail et citoyenneté. Quel avenir?"; America's biggest low-wage industry: Continuity and change in retail jobs, and Brokering Up: The Role of Temporary Staffing in Overcoming Labor Market Barriers, Report on the Alternative Staffing Demonstration 2005-08.