Labor, Inequality, and the Valuation of Workers During Crisis

• In Event: Gender, Work, and the Economy

Brief Overview

This paper examines how state essential worker designations during COVID-19 reflect racialized and gendered labor valuation, incorporating industry-level mortality data to reveal when essential work is treated as vital and when as expendable.

Authors

• Eliza Bennett, University of Southern California

• Pamela Clouser McCann, University of Southern California