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