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The Labor Struggles of Essential Workers

KPFA - Against the Grain

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The COVID Pandemic and the Struggles of Essential Workers

Sasha Lilly: How do you organize when you're often risking your life to perform your job? That was the question many frontline workers had to face during the COVID pandemic. Sociologist Jamie McCallum examines their responses organizing themselves under dire circumstances with much of it uncounted by government labor statistics. In essential how the pandemic transformed the long fight for worker justice, he says.

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