Wednesday, July 08, 2020
Professor and Chair of Labor and Employment Studies John Logan was quoted in an Axios article discussing the growth of American workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
Just as grocery and delivery workers found themselves fighting a crisis they didn't sign up for back in March, teachers, hairstylists and temperature checkers are part of a new wave of workers who are now in harm's way as the pandemic rages on. "This is a new group of essential workers," says John Logan, a U.S. labor historian at San Francisco State University. "They're people who never thought they’d be putting their life on the line by going to work."