“We Are Workers in a Workplace Who Have Rights”: Unionization, COVID-19, and the Place of Labor at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum

Andy Urban is an associate professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. His current research focuses on Seabrook Farms, an agribusiness and company town in Southern New Jersey that contracted incarcerated Japanese Americans, guestworkers from the Caribbean, and European Displaced Persons to expand its workforce during the 1940s and 1950s. Andy recently joined the Immigration and Ethnic History Society’s Executive Board and is a member of the Executive Council of the Rutgers AAUP-AFT union.