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 cra...
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 Suffering
Suffering seems to obey a kind of social gravity in t...
By Adia Harvey Wingfield, author of Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy
At 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 ...
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 H...
by Aliya Hamid Rao, author of Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment
As 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.
T...