The Pandemic and the Working Class – How US Labor Navigated COVID–19 Juravich

The Pandemic and the Working ClassHow US Labor Navigated COVID-19\nAuthor(s): Nick Juravich, Steve Striffler, Nick Juravich, Steve Striffler, Nick Juravich, Steve Striffler, Devan Hawkins, Samir Sonti, Ismael Garca-Coln, Carlos Aramayo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252046520, 978-0252046520\nSynopsis\nDuring 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 shk