$65,000
Labor Unions and Workplace Safety Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
2022
Jamie McCallum is associate professor of sociology at Middlebury College. His research focuses on work and labor issues in the United States and the Global South.
His third book, Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice, will be published by Basic Books in November 2022. McCallum received his Ph.D. in sociology from the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Funded Research
Authored by Jamie McCallum
Policy
Even health care, the strongest sector of the U.S. jobs market, cannot deliver the wages its workers deserve without unionization (opens in a new tab)
Essays SEP 10, 2025
By: Adam Dean, Jamie McCallum
Household Economic Security
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Policy
The political implications of bad jobs and the decline of unions (opens in a new tab)
Blog MAY 13, 2025
By: Adam Dean, Jamie McCallum
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Household Economic Security
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Political Economy & Democracy
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