Essential : How The Pandemic Transformed The Long Fight For Worker Justice

Description: How essential workers fight for better jobs during the pandemic revolutionized US labor politics Throughout the coronavirus pandemic essential workers lashed out against low wages long hours and safety risks attracting a level of support unseen in decades. This explosion of labor unrest seemed sudden to many. But Essential reveals that American workers had simmered in discontent long before their anger boiled over. Decades of austerity sociologist Jamie K. Mc Callum shows have left frontline workers vulnerable to employer abuse lacking government protections and increasingly furious. Through firsthand research conducted as the pandemic unfolded Mc Callum traces the evolution of workers militancy showing how their struggles for safer workplaces better pay and health care and the right to unionize have benefitted all Americans and spurred a radical new phase of the labor movement. This is essential reading for understanding the past present and future of the working class.
Title: Essential : How The Pandemic Transformed The Long Fight For Worker Justice
Barcode: 9781541619913
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/15/2022