Pandemic and the Working Class

How US Labor Navigated COVID-19

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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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. Contributors: Carlos Aramayo, Kathleen Brown, Sandrine Etienne, Ismael GarcÍa-ColÓn, Puya Gerami, Maura Hagan, Connor Harney, Devan Hawkins, Leigh Howard, Marian Moser Jones, Doris Joy, Nick Juravich, Eric Larson, Kathryn M. Meyer, Samir Sonti, Steve Striffler, Lia Warner, Andrew B. Wolf, and Jennifer Zelnick

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Utgivningsdatum2025-04-08
Mått156 x 235 x 28 mm
Vikt513 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieWorking Class in American History
Antal sidor328
FörlagUniversity of Illinois Press
ISBN9780252088643

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Introduction Nick Juravich and Steve StrifflerPart I. Opening Interventions Work and the Labor Movement during the Pandemic Nick Juravich and Steve StrifflerThe Diseases Are the Symptoms: Working-Class Plagues-COVID-19 and Deaths of Despair Devan HawkinsSorting Out the Politics of Inflation, Past and Present Samir SontiPart II. Food, Labor, and Hospitality Crises and Essential Workers: The Impact of COVID-19 on Farmworkers and Guest Worker Programs Ismael GarcÍa-ColÓnThe Battle of the Shutdown: How Hospitality Workers Confronted Disaster Capitalism during the COVID-19 Pandemic Carlos AramayoPart III. The Education Industry No Cuts-No Cops-No COVID: The Graduate Employees’ Pandemic Strike at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Kathleen BrownDisability Justice and the Education Labor Movement during the COVID-19 Pandemic Kathryn M. MeyerArchival Labor and Labor Power: Using COVID Collections to Rethink History Making and the Labor Movement Lia WarnerPart IV. The Healthcare Industry COVID, Caregiving, and Coping: Nurses’ Frontline Work through a Pandemic Year Marian Moser JonesHealthcare Social Workers on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cracks, Flaws, and a Vision for Social Healthcare Jennifer Zelnick, Leigh Howard, Doris Joy, Maura Hagan, and Sandrine EtiennePart V. “New” Forms of Organizing Beyond Austerity America: Labor Animates New Coalitions in the Age of COVID-19 Puya GeramiRediscovering Class: EWOC and Pandemic Labor Activism Connor HarneyThe Pandemic Revolt of New York City’s Immigrant “Small Business” Unions Andrew B. WolfCannabis, COVID-19, and Racial Capitalism: Unionization in the Era of Inequality Eric LarsonEpilogue Nick Juravich and Steve StrifflerContributorsIndex