Risky Business: Sex Work Amid the Pandemic
Public Health Post introduces a series examining how the criminalization and stigma of sex work affects workers in various sectors of the sex industry.
...morePublic Health Post introduces a series examining how the criminalization and stigma of sex work affects workers in various sectors of the sex industry.
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...moreSaru Jayaraman is the president of One Fair Wage and director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley. She launched One Fair Wage to end subminimum wage payments for all employees in the United States. She talked with Public Health Post about the current work of One Fair Wage, how the pandemic affected service industry workers, and the health impacts of Covid-19 on the restaurant industry and tipped employees.
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