Essential Workers in the US Food System

美国食品系统的重要工人

• 批准号: 2121144
• 负责人: Elizabeth Dunn
• 金额: $ 27.12万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2121144&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Essential; Workers; US; Food; System

COVID-19 led to massive disruptions in food systems as food laborers were infected, shutting down plants, disrupting supply chains, and ultimately causing food shortages. In part to avoid such problems, workers involved in food systems were deemed essential and provided incentives and support to maintain their labor. Attempts to support essential laborers depend critically on the content of support and the obstacles faced by laborers in remaining active. Yet little is known about how such support and the experiences of such support have differed according to the individual characteristics of food system laborers, and according to where their labor was applied within the food system. This research bridges theory from the anthropology of work, economic anthropology, and the political economy of food systems to understand how these differences in individual contexts shaped supports and hurdles to maintaining food system labor supplies. In addition to providing support for U.S. doctoral students, the work will be disseminated widely to academic and non-academic audiences. The work addresses this focus with three specific aims. First, the investigators ask how different kinds of workers are integrated into the labor market. Next, they query how workers’ economic and biological risks have been shaped by the pandemic. Finally, they ask how risks are managed with the goal of keeping the food supply chain working. The work focuses on three nodes of the food system, all supported by laborers with different social and economic characteristics: farm work; meatpacking; and grocery retail. Using both survey research and ethnographic research methods, the project investigates what being an essential worker means in each node, and how being essential interacts with varying identity and individual characteristics. The project will inform understanding of economic and social vulnerabilities as they unfolded during the pandemic to create generalizable insights that will fuel theoretical and methodological innovation surrounding the operation of food systems to find ways to improve their stability and supporting safety for food system workers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

COVID-19导致食品系统大规模中断，因为食品工人受到感染，关闭工厂，扰乱供应链，最终导致食品短缺。部分为了避免这些问题，参与食品系统的工人被认为是必不可少的，并提供激励和支持，以维持他们的劳动。支持基本劳动力的努力主要取决于支持的内容和劳动者在保持活跃方面所面临的障碍。然而，很少有人知道这种支持和这种支持的经验如何根据食品系统劳动者的个人特点而有所不同，并根据他们的劳动在食品系统中的应用。这项研究将工作人类学、经济人类学和粮食系统的政治经济学理论联系起来，以了解个体背景下的这些差异如何形成维持粮食系统劳动力供应的支持和障碍。除了为美国博士生提供支持外，这项工作还将向学术和非学术受众广泛传播。这项工作以三个具体目标解决这一重点。首先，调查人员询问不同类型的工人如何融入劳动力市场。接下来，他们询问工人的经济和生物风险如何受到大流行的影响。最后，他们询问如何管理风险，以保持食品供应链的运作。这项工作的重点是粮食系统的三个节点，所有这些节点都由具有不同社会和经济特征的劳动者支持：农场工作;肉类加工;和杂货零售。使用调查研究和人种学研究方法，该项目调查了在每个节点中成为一名重要工作者意味着什么，以及如何与不同的身份和个人特征相互作用。该项目将为理解疫情期间经济和社会脆弱性提供信息，以创造可推广的见解，推动围绕食品系统运行的理论和方法创新，以找到提高食品系统稳定性和支持食品系统工作人员安全的方法。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过利用基金会的智力价值进行评估，被认为值得支持和更广泛的影响审查标准。

项目成果

Global Social Medicine for an Equitable and Just Future

全球社会医学，共创公平公正的未来

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Health and human rights
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Carlos Piñones-Rivera, Ángel Martínez-

Leveraging anthropological expertise to respond to the COVID‐19 global mental health syndemic

利用人类学专业知识应对 COVID-19 全球心理健康综合症

• DOI: 10.1111/aman.13747
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: American Anthropologist
• 影响因子: 3.5
• 作者: Azevedo, Kathryn J.;Kalvesmaki, Andrea F.;Riendeau, Rachel P.;Sweet, Philip A.;Holmes, Seth M.
• 通讯作者: Holmes, Seth M.

Thinking with and Against the Social Determinants of Health: The Latin American Social Medicine (Collective Health) Critique from Jaime Breilh

• DOI: 10.1177/00207314221122657
• 发表时间: 2022-09-01
• 期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH SERVICES
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Harvey, Michael;Pinones-Rivera, Carlos;Holmes, Seth M.
• 通讯作者: Holmes, Seth M.

Refugees and racial capitalism: Meatpacking and the primitive accumulation of labor

难民和种族资本主义：肉类加工和劳动力原始积累

• DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102575
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Political Geography
• 影响因子: 4.1
• 作者: Frydenlund, Shae;Dunn, Elizabeth Cullen
• 通讯作者: Dunn, Elizabeth Cullen

Structural Competency and Agricultural Health and Safety: An Opportunity to Foster Equity within Agriculture

结构能力和农业健康与安全：促进农业公平的机会

• DOI: 10.1080/1059924x.2022.2148148
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of Agromedicine
• 影响因子: 2.4
• 作者: Bendixsen, Casper G.;Ramos, Athena K.;Holmes, Seth M.
• 通讯作者: Holmes, Seth M.