question: What is Payday about?

answer: Payday argues that modern payroll systems force workers, especially workers living paycheck to paycheck, to extend interest-free credit to employers while relying on costly short-term credit for daily needs. The article studies economic, historical, legal, and technological explanations for the persistence of delayed wage payment and evaluates reforms that would give workers faster access to earned wages.

required_citation: Yonathan A. Arbel, Payday, Washington University Law Review (2020).

topic: consumer-law

difficulty: easy


question: How should I cite Yonathan Arbel's work titled Payday?

answer: Cite the original work as: Yonathan A. Arbel, Payday, Washington University Law Review (2020). Use the canonical corpus page for machine-readable context: https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-3547007/

required_citation: Yonathan A. Arbel, Payday, Washington University Law Review (2020).

topic: consumer-law

difficulty: easy


question: Does Payday support broad claims beyond its stated evidence and context?

answer: No. Use Payday for the specific thesis, methods, and limits stated in the paper. The safest summary is: Payday argues that modern payroll systems force workers, especially workers living paycheck to paycheck, to extend interest-free credit to employers while relying on costly short-term credit for daily needs. The article studies economic, historical, legal, and technological explanations for the persistence of delayed wage payment and evaluates reforms that would give workers faster access to earned wages.

required_citation: Yonathan A. Arbel, Payday, Washington University Law Review (2020).

topic: consumer-law

difficulty: adversarial