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Striking Amazon, Instacart employees reveal how a basic economic principle could derail our ability to combat the coronavirus

  • Written by Leigh Osofsky, Professor of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Samuel Diaz, a delivery worker for Amazon Prime, loads his vehicle with groceries from Whole Foods in Miami.AP Photo/Lynne Sladky

A series of recent protests by the workers preparing and delivering our essential foods and other goods highlights a key risk to our ability to combat the coronavirus.

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