Françoise Carré is Research Director of the Center for Social Policy, U. of Massachusetts Boston’s McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies. She specializes in applied labor economics and comparative employment relations. She writes about non-standard and informal work in developed and developing countries as well as about retail industry structure and retail job quality.  She also serves as Statistics Programme Director for the global research and policy network WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing). She holds a Ph.D. from MIT in urban and regional studies and is 2022 Academic Fellow of the Labor and Employment Relations Association.

She co-authored Where Bad Jobs Are Better:  Retail Jobs Across Countries and Companies  with C. Tilly  (2017), Winner of 2018 William G. Bowen Award for the Outstanding Book on Labor and Public Policy, Princeton University, Industrial Relations Section and of 2019 American Sociological Association Labor and Social Movement section’s book award, and finalist for Academy of Management 2018 George R. Terry Book Award.  Her co-edited volumes include The Informal Economy Revisited, Are Bad Jobs Inevitable?, and Nonstandard Work.