Pandemic and the Working Class

Introduction Nick Juravich and Steve Striffler
Part I. Opening Interventions



Work and the Labor Movement during the Pandemic Nick Juravich and Steve Striffler
The Diseases Are the Symptoms: Working-Class Plagues-COVID-19 and Deaths of Despair Devan Hawkins
Sorting Out the Politics of Inflation, Past and Present Samir Sonti

Part II. Food, Labor, and Hospitality

Crises and Essential Workers: The Impact of COVID-19 on Farmworkers and Guest Worker Programs Ismael Garcia-Colon
The Battle of the Shutdown: How Hospitality Workers Confronted Disaster Capitalism during the COVID-19 Pandemic Carlos Aramayo

Part III. The Education Industry

No Cuts-No Cops-No COVID: The Graduate Employees' Pandemic Strike at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Kathleen Brown
Disability Justice and the Education Labor Movement during the COVID-19 Pandemic Kathryn M. Meyer
Archival Labor and Labor Power: Using COVID Collections to Rethink History Making and the Labor Movement Lia Warner

Part IV. The Healthcare Industry

COVID, Caregiving, and Coping: Nurses' Frontline Work through a Pandemic Year Marian Moser Jones
Healthcare 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 Etienne

Part V. "New" Forms of Organizing

Beyond Austerity America: Labor Animates New Coalitions in the Age of COVID-19 Puya Gerami
Rediscovering Class: EWOC and Pandemic Labor Activism Connor Harney
The Pandemic Revolt of New York City's Immigrant "Small Business" Unions Andrew B. Wolf
Cannabis, COVID-19, and Racial Capitalism: Unionization in the Era of Inequality Eric Larson

Epilogue Nick Juravich and Steve Striffler
Contributors
Index

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unions; organizing; healthcare; education; hospitality; inequality; work; class conflict; deaths of despair; workers; occupational health; profit; inflation; public policy; monetary policy; food; guest worker programs; farmworkers; borders; hotel industry; UNITE HERE; Boston; hospitality industry; graduate workers; strike; University of Michigan; college activism; ableism; disabled workers; teachers unions; activism; archives; archival labor; contemporaneous collecting; disasters; archivist-historian relationships; nurses' health; healthcare worker safety; nursing; essential workers; SEIU; New York City; hospitals; coalitions; austerity; Bargaining for the Common Good; independent political organizations; EWOC; labor movement; grassroots organizing