The following is an interview with Chris Tilly, Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California Los Angeles - UCLA, a social researcher whose studies are focused on the Labor and Employment issues. Tilly holds a PhD degreein Economics and Urban Studies and Planning (1989) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT, with the thesis entitled “Half a job: How U.S. firms use part-time employment”. He was the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment[1] directorfor eight years until June 2016.[1] See website: http://www.irle.ucla.edu/.