Schedule flexibility in hourly jobs: unanticipated consequences and promising directions

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Flexibility in the Gig Economy: Managing Time on Three Online Piecework Platforms (2018, unknown): “Differences in bargaining power have meant that one worker’s flexibility has sometimes turned into another’s uncertainty (Lambert et al. 2012).”
Where Have All the “Workers” Gone? A Critical Analysis of the Unrepresentativeness of Our Samples Relative to the Labor Market in the Industrial–Organizational Psychology Literature (2015, background): “Lambert, Haley-Lock, and Henly (2012) found that reduced working hours and varying work schedules disadvantaged low-income workers because these forms of flexibility, which are commonly thought of as beneficial to employees, lead to wage instability for workers.”
Unpredictable Work Timing in Retail Jobs (2014, background): “the consequences of unpredictable working time are of special concern, especially in the United states, where a lax public policy environment governs employer-employee relationships, where only a small share of workers are covered by collective bargaining agreements, and where the welfare state is r”