Essential: how the pandemic transformed the long fight for worker justice
"The coronavirus pandemic threw life into a tumult for American workers, igniting new class struggles and further stoking those already under way. Across the country, essential workers lashed out against low wages, long hours, and safety risks, both with labor union backing and without it. Nurs...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "The coronavirus pandemic threw life into a tumult for American workers, igniting new class struggles and further stoking those already under way. Across the country, essential workers lashed out against low wages, long hours, and safety risks, both with labor union backing and without it. Nurses, teachers, grocery clerks, farmers, food processing workers, and many more fought for higher wages, paid sick leave, better healthcare, and, above all else, increased safety protocols, attracting public support at a level unseen in the twenty-first century. The explosion in worker anger and the resurgence of organized labor's popularity may seem like short-term consequence of the coronavirus crisis, but both trends were long in the making and are likely to last far beyond the pandemic. In Essential , award-winning sociologist Jamie McCallum uncovers the deep roots and seismic impact of essential workers' rage, arguing that today's widespread labor unrest and militancy is both the result and the repudiation of decades of austerity. The turn toward small government in the 1980s, McCallum shows, meant the slow unraveling of the nation's social safety net and regulatory standards. Ever since, underpaid workers have since found themselves increasingly vulnerable to employer abuse and neglected by the state. In the wake of the Great Recession, these workers' ranks-and their anger-swelled, as low-wage, unstable jobs and subpar working conditions became the norm nationally. Intermittent waves of labor protest subsequently rocked America throughout the 2010s. But only in the course of performing high-risk, low-paid jobs throughout the pandemic, McCallum finds, did many essential workers across the United States begin to think of themselves of a marginalized class, lauded by the public as heroes but ruthlessly exploited by their employers. Through in-depth research conducted as the pandemic unfolded, McCallum traces the evolution of workers' class consciousness and militancy, showing how essential workers fought to improve not only their collective working conditions but also the living conditions of all of us. Highly organized, massive strikes of healthcare workers and other frontline employees achieved tangible gains for workers and the public, from high-tech air ventilators in classrooms and sufficient PPE in nursing homes to increased wages and more paid leave. |
| Beschreibung: | ix, 305 Seiten Diagramme 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781541619913 1541619919 |
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| 520 | 3 | |a "The coronavirus pandemic threw life into a tumult for American workers, igniting new class struggles and further stoking those already under way. Across the country, essential workers lashed out against low wages, long hours, and safety risks, both with labor union backing and without it. Nurses, teachers, grocery clerks, farmers, food processing workers, and many more fought for higher wages, paid sick leave, better healthcare, and, above all else, increased safety protocols, attracting public support at a level unseen in the twenty-first century. The explosion in worker anger and the resurgence of organized labor's popularity may seem like short-term consequence of the coronavirus crisis, but both trends were long in the making and are likely to last far beyond the pandemic. | |
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| 520 | 3 | |a But only in the course of performing high-risk, low-paid jobs throughout the pandemic, McCallum finds, did many essential workers across the United States begin to think of themselves of a marginalized class, lauded by the public as heroes but ruthlessly exploited by their employers. Through in-depth research conducted as the pandemic unfolded, McCallum traces the evolution of workers' class consciousness and militancy, showing how essential workers fought to improve not only their collective working conditions but also the living conditions of all of us. Highly organized, massive strikes of healthcare workers and other frontline employees achieved tangible gains for workers and the public, from high-tech air ventilators in classrooms and sufficient PPE in nursing homes to increased wages and more paid leave. | |
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