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As workers attempt new modes of employment in the era of the Great Resignation, they face a labor landscape that is increasingly uncertain and stubbornly unequal. With Handcrafted Careers, sociologist Eli Revelle Yano Wilson dives headfirst into the everyday lives of workers in the craft beer indust

This blog post originally appeared on the USC Equity Research Institute blog, and it is reproduced here with permission.By Josh Seim, author of Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban SufferingSuffering seems to obey a kind of social gravity in the polarize

By Adia Harvey Wingfield, author of Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New EconomyAt this point, it is safe to say that the coronavirus has laid bare foundational inequalities in American life--in access to education, work, housing, and perhaps most visibly, health and health car

Answering the question "what do ambulance workers do?" might seem like a simple task — they are frontline healthcare workers who help save the lives of the critically injured. But this response doesn't give us the full picture. Josh Seim, sociologist and author of Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambu

by Aliya Hamid Rao, author of Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront UnemploymentAs of April 2020, the unemployment rate in the U.S stands at 14.7% (4 percentage points higher than the worst months of the Great Recession of 2007-2009). 23.1 million people have lost their jobs.These number