This page brings together materrials relating to the COVID-19 pandemic and its eggects on workers and the labor movement.

Caution: as the situation is rapidly evolving, articles may be out of date. We will put the date of publication and/or the date the material wass submitted to us on every entry.

Barry, Bill: Sept.19, 2020 booklet, "Organizing in the Time of the Pandemic: Normal No Longer Exists"

  pdf Organizing in the time of Pandemic (2.51 MB)

Ashby, Steven, Sept 19, 2020, materials assigned to his students to go with lecture on "the Pandemic and U.S. Workers"

• “Young Adults, Burdened With Debt, Are Now Facing an Economic Crisis,” April 6, 2020 New York Times
• “Don’t Blame Econ 101 for the Plight of Essential Workers: They’ve been systematically devalued for years. But they don’t have to be,” May 13, 2020 Atlantic magazine
• “McDonalds, Marriott Franchises Didn’t Pay Covid-19 Sick Leave; That was Illegal,” August 3, 2020, Center for Public Integrity
• “Striking in the Coronavirus Depression,” August 2020, by labor historian Jeremy Brecher
• Search this list of recent Labor Notes magazine articles on workers and the Pandemic:  “Latest COVID-19 Coverage from Labor Notes”
• Search this archived list of March to May 2020 Labor Notes articles on workers and the Pandemic:  Coronavisrus coverage from Labor Notes”
• Search this list of In These Times magazine articles on the workers and the Pandemic
• Video:  “America's Pandemic Workers: We examine the coronavirus pandemic's impact on essential workers in the US and the risks to their health and safety,” June 17, 2020 Al Jazeera Faultline video (25 minutes)

document Lessons from Labor History (89 KB)