AS WE WAIT FOR A MUCH-NEEDED TRANSFORMATION THAT CAN seem most unlikely, the forever work clock keeps ticking by for America’s working parents. And that twenty-four-hour punch clock and irregular hours continue to combine with our lack of affordable day care to make many people’s lives very difficult. Today, unstable hours are a bigger problem than low pay, advocates told me. However, Joshua Freeman, for one, is optimistic: he believes that the movement for a fair workweek will follow in the successful path of the fight for family leave and a higher minimum wage.
