Clean Up on Aisle Five: Essential Work and Poverty Wages at America’s Grocery Stores w/ Ann Larson

In our latest, we talk with activist and writer Ann Larson (@annllarson) about her experience working in a Salt Lake City grocery store during the early part of the pandemic. We talk about the economic precarity all grocery workers face there while performing an essential task for our society. We get into corporate policing and surveillance of employees, and the poverty wages and zero benefits they give to the workers.

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Guest bio//
Ann Larson (@AnnLLarson) is an activist and writer focused on economic justice.
Her writing has appeared in many publications including the New Republic, the Nation and In These Times. She’s the co-founder of the Debt Collective and a Reporting Fellow with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She’s the author of “Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register.”