Labor 131: Justine Modica, Assistant Professor Global Labor & Work

Описание: This week on America’s Work Force Union Podcast, host Ed "Flash" Ferenc speaks with Justine Modica, Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Labor and Work at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Modica discusses the long and complex history of child care in the United States, from her personal experience as a nanny to her research on reproductive labor and care work. She explains how child care has been undervalued for more than a century, why the U.S. came close to universal child care in the 1940s and 1970s, and how workers and parents continue to struggle under a system that is both unaffordable and unsustainable.

She also explores the organizing efforts of child care workers—from municipal campaigns in New York City to grassroots daycare unions in Boston, Madison, and Seattle—and why public funding is the key to creating fair wages and quality care.

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Introduction and Sponsor: Blue Cross and Blue Shield National Labor Office
1:05 – Introducing Justine Modica, Cornell University
2:03 – From nanny to labor historian
4:21 – Early experiences of child care as wage work
5:43 – Graduate student union activism and care issues at Stanford
7:52 – Linking child care, gender inequality, and wages
8:33 – The Lanham Act and World War II child care centers
10:35 – The Comprehensive Child Development Act of 1971 and Nixon’s veto
12:56 – Backlash politics and the abandonment of universal child care
16:04 – The low wages of child care work today
17:20 – Organizing New York City daycare centers in the 1960s
19:27 – Boston and Madison daycare worker unions
20:54 – Grassroots child care organizing in Berkeley and Oakland
22:36 – The “Worthy Wage” campaign in Seattle
24:05 – Why public funding is critical for successful organizing
25:27 – Elections, public policy, and the future of child care

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Justine Modica: Assistant Professor, Department of Global Labor and Work, Cornell University ILR School. Historian of care work and reproductive labor.

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