Essential services ensure that our continues to run, but things are a bit different during a pandemic. In this episode, we talk about some of the occupations that have graduated to essential and discuss how their new “value” has yet to reach employees.
    
Timestamps:
1:10: What is an essential service?
2:56: The shift in importance of custodial work and other occupations
8:00: Will the perceived value of certain occupations shift?
10:20: Job evaluation
17:45: Are certain essential services now “non-essential”?
22:50: Final thoughts
 
Mentioned This Episode:
NYT article on custodial services
Episode of 99pi on Social Infrastructure
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Credits:
Our intro and outro music for Unscripted is “Pamgaea” by Kevin McLeod, licensed under licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. You can find more of Kevin’s music at incompetech.com.
 
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