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The Pandemic and the Working Class: How Us Labor Navigated Covid-19

The Pandemic and the Working Class: How Us Labor Navigated Covid-19

Juravich, Nick
Striffler, Steve
Juravich, Nick

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Series: Working Class in American History

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ISBN10: 0252088646
ISBN13: 9780252088643
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: Apr 8 2025
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
During the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of workers lost their jobs in sectors from hospitality to transportation, while healthcare and frontline service workers faced a new world of brutal hours in unsafe and even deadly conditions. Yet, as the US economy reopened, workers experienced a rare moment of leverage as demand for labor and government support powered a surge of collective action that allowed working people to seek rights, respect, and power on the job through resignations, walkouts, strikes, and union organizing. The lessons and legacies of this upsurge in organizing continue to shape work, activism, and politics across the nation today.

Nick Juravich and Steve Striffler edit a collection that examines the effects of the pandemic on workers. Sections of the book focus on specific impacts and government efforts to restructure the economy; the dramatic effect of the pandemic on the hospitality industry; educators' response on behalf of themselves and their students; frontline healthcare workers; and the innovative forms of labor organizing that emerged during and after COVID.

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