Many people are after a year of Covid. The pandemic magnified everything we don鈥檛 like about modern work - too many hours for too little pay in the context of a loosely woven national safety net. Some people are switching jobs, others are dropping out of the workforce entirely.
The vary, but it gets to a bigger societal question that asks what kind of work we value and how that value is rewarded. Jobs no longer provide the economic security, pension and room for advancement that helped build the middle class after World War II. And we all learned this past year that the workers who were "essential" during the pandemic have historically been undervalued.
Today, are we getting what we need from work?
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- is a at "The Cut" and the author of several books including the her YA novels Girl Crushed and the forthcoming The Year I Stopped Trying
- is an assistant professor of Sociology and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. Her new book, will be published in October.
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Colin McEnroe, Cat Pastor, and Catie Talarski contributed to this show
