Tara Kane Prendergast (Sociology) Receives Fall 2023 SBSRI Dissertation Research Grant

Kudos to Tara Kane Prendergast (School of Sociology) for receiving a Dissertation Research Grant!

Tara's research examines how full-time workers living in or near poverty make sense of political-economic changes in labor in general, and raises to the minimum wage in particular. Drawing on in-depth interviews with workers in the LA and Phoenix MSA’s, she examines how social context and more individuated factors influence how workers think about themselves, others, and the U.S. system of stratification more broadly. The findings have implications for understanding how wage-centered policies can contribute to, or exacerbate, American inequality.