A Baseline of Decency: The Power and Promise of Alt-labor and Worker Centers is my forthcoming book under contract with the University of California Press (Spring 2027). Drawing on participant observation as a campaign organizer at Arise Chicago—a vibrant worker center—plus over thirty interviews and extensive document analysis, this book reveals how low-wage immigrant workers build power outside traditional unions through social and symbolic capital. Together, they are forging a new moral economy for workers.

Spinoff projects include at least a pair of articles on the specific successes of domestic worker advocates. The first one will appear in the Georgetown Law Journal. A related article compares worker mobilization in the United States and China to combat wage theft.

Rebuilding the administrative state. My newest project tackles one of the most urgent questions in American law and politics: how do we rebuild the federal civil service after 2024-28? Drawing on Weber's concept of bureaucratic autonomy, Peter Evans's theory of "embeddedness," and critical insights about power, this research diagnoses the current Republican administration's fundamental errors in dismantling the administrative state and charts a path forward for restoring expertise, strengthening regulators' ties with their constituencies, and reclaiming legitimate forms of bureaucratic power.