Jamie McCallum Lecture: "Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice"

Fri, April 21, 2023 11:00 AM - Fri, April 21, 2023 12:20 PM at S. Kedzie Hall, Room 133

MSU Sociology, together with the School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, are pleased to welcome Jamie McCallum of Middlebury College.

Dr. McCallum will be presenting “Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice.” The talk is Friday 4/21 12pm – 1:20p in 133 South Kedzie Hall. Pizza will be served.

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This talk builds on McCallum's new book on front-line workers during the pandemic, Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice. Through interviews, surveys, and other data, McCallum traces and contours of the pandemic through the prism of essential industries. Their struggles for higher wages, public health, and new politics help us understand the pandemic and labor organizing in a new light.>

McCallum, is an author, teacher, and activist, focusing on labor and work issues around the world. He is currently associate professor of sociology at Middlebury College. His work has won scholarly awards and appeared in The Washington Post, Mother Jones, Jacobin, Dissent, In These Times, and other magazines.