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“We Keep Us Safe”: Working and Organizing in a Pandemic

Workers speak from the front-lines of the pandemic.

Maximillian Alvarez

A worker packs groceries during a World Central Kitchen free pop-up farmers market at Masbia Soup Kitchen to help those in need during the Coronavirus crisis on April 20, 2020 in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

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Maximillian Alvarez is editor-in-chief at the Real News Network and host of the podcast Working People, available at InThe​se​Times​.com. He is also the author of The Work of Living: Working People Talk About Their Lives and the Year the World Broke.

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