Essential (non medical) Workers and CoVid19
Overview
Since the CoVID19 pandemic, essential workers have been impacted beyond that of others in the labor force. Statistics on nonmedical essential workers and how CoVid19 affects their health and livelihood are lacking. No centralized reporting exists and corporations do not either collect or provide this data. This OER attempts to bring together various sources information from March-July 2020 for future research.
This material is a compilation of original sources of varying restrictions to be used for educational purposes, so I have chosen the CC BY NC ND license.
Essential Workers and CoVID19
Essential Workers and CoVID19
ABOUT this OER
Statistical information and research on U.S. essential workers and how the CoVid19 pandemic impacts their lives is scarce. This OER brings together news reports, research, videos, government legislation and agency reports, and sources of labor actions for researchers and scholars from the Spring and Summer of 2020. It is organized into several folders.
The research folders contain reports by the Roosevelt Institute, Urban Institute, Kaiser Family Foundation, Center for Disease Control, McKinsey Global Institute, The Lancet, and others.
The news report on essential workers and CoVid19 are culled from various first hand accounts as reported by the media.
The labor actions folder is about the current events that essential workers have taken such as striking for better working conditions or requesting PPE, and their repercussions.
The charts folder offers statistics on PPE, pay and working conditions taken from reputable journal sources.
The legislation folder has sources of information from legislative hearings, actions and government agencies.
The history folder has a brief account of the history of the government’s relation to essential workers
The document called source listings contains the links to the material in the folders.
Since this material is a compilation of original sources of various restrictions to be used for educational purposes, I have chosen the CC BY NC ND license.
Title picture from Labornotes.org