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May 2020: COVID-19 Hits Food Processing Industries
From: Spin Doctors
$2.10
This chapter covers how Covid-19 impacted food processing industries. Loreto examines how the workers in grocery stores, factories, and plants were "hailed as frontline heroes and treated as if they were expendable". The media coverage of Covid-19 outbreaks in these industries is discussed, including how the race and class of the meat-packing workers impacted how Covid-19 outbreaks and their working conditions were investigated.
Contributors
Nora Loreto
Nora Loreto is a writer and activist from Quebec City. She is the author of Take Back the Fight: Organizing Feminism in the Digital Age (Fernwood 2020) and From Demonized to Organized: Building the New Union Movement (CCPA 2013). Nora is the editor of the Canadian Association of Labour Media and is an opinion columnist whose writing appears regularly in many publications. She co-hosts the popular podcast Sandy and Nora Talk Politics with Sandy Hudson.
