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“Good Work: Worker Co-operative and Transformative Labor Photography” with Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Mother Jones

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GOOD WORK: WORKER CO-OPERATIVES AND TRANSFORMATIVE LABOR PHOTOGRAPHY
presented with Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Mother Jones

Featuring Stacy Kranitz, Joseph Rodriguez, Mark Murrmann, Molly Hemstreet, and moderated by Alissa Quart

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While worker-owned co-operatives make up only a tiny sliver of U.S. businesses, the chaos and privations of the pandemic and its aftermath helped make them newly popular. People are drawn to a model that returns them power. Six photographers from across the country have recorded a range of these co-ops—from a workers co-op comprised of ride-share drivers in New York City, to one that sews sweatshirts in North Carolina.

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