Essential Workers: Public Employment and the Dignity of Labor

The COVID 19 pandemic highlighted a longstanding contradiction; that workers who address our most essential needs, including health care, child and elderly care, sanitation and transportation, are among the most poorly paid and least empowered workers in the United States. In this talk, William P. Jones traces the roots of that contradiction to the Progressive era, and explains why the devaluing of essential labor shaped histories of race, gender and labor over the past century.

Thursday, April 24th | 6-7:30pm| Knight Law Center room 175