Arne L. Kalleberg is a Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published extensively on topics related to the sociology of work, organizations, occupations and industries, labor markets, and social stratification. He is the author of Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: The Rise of Polarized and Precarious Employment Systems in the United States, 1970s–2000s (Russell Sage Foundation 2013) and Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies (Polity Press, 2018). Most recently, he is the co-author of Precarious Asia: Global Capitalism and Work in Japan, South Korea and Indonesia (Stanford University Press, 2022). He served as the President of the American Sociological Association in 2007-8 and is currently the editor of Social Forces, an International Journal of Social Research.