[Themaintainers] essential work

[Irish, Sharon Lee]

Good morning,
Thanks for these two posts from Ed and Andy. 

I just wanted to alert folks to YouthBuild https://youthbuild.org/, which is a group that I work with here in Champaign, IL. It was started by teacher Dorothy Stoneman in East Harlem and went national in 1988, and since internationally. (Stoneman got a MacArthur Fellowship and has now retired.) YouthBuild is now funded through the Department of Labor. They have affiliates in lots of places, which you can search on the map: https://youthbuild.org/our-programs/. Our local affiliate is the Housing Authority of Champaign Co. https://hacc.net/youthbuild/

Sharon Irish

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>   1. Essential Work (Ed Summers)
>   2. Re: Essential Work (Andrew Russell)
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> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 21:06:05 -0500
> From: Ed Summers <ehs at pobox.com>
> To: themaintainers at lists.stevens.edu
> Subject: [Themaintainers] Essential Work
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> I thought of The Maintainers while watching this segment on the PBS
> News Hour tonight. Maybe you'll like it too.
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> With millions looking for work, stigmas create a dearth of skilled
> tradespeople / Paul Solman
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> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/with-millions-looking-for-work-stigmas-create-a-dearth-of-skilled-tradespeople__;!!DZ3fjg!twlKliGLFgz_gw2KnF6UZcHecRNWpUtN2WiqLk2QkP2Sn0cxJG40wtKC_LcwVE5x6Q$ 
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> "The push for one form of education in my view really was the beginning
> of a long list of stigmas, myths and misperceptions that to this day
> dissuade millions of kids from pursuing a legitimate opportunity to
> make six figures in the trades."
> 
> "There are entire categories of work that are shrouded in mystery and
> if we don't demystify them and destigmatize them we're going to be
> waiting for plumbers and electricians for a long, long time."
> 
> //Ed
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 13:18:42 -0500
> From: Andrew Russell <andy at themaintainers.org>
> To: ehs at pobox.com
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> Subject: Re: [Themaintainers] Essential Work
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> Ed, thanks so much for sharing this.  I find this subject endlessly fascinating: for both personal/family reasons, scholarly reasons, and also since workforce development is a significant part of what we?re doing at my university (SUNY Polytechnic). 
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> I wrote about this subject for a workshop on Knowledge Infrastructures that was organized at UCLA last year <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://knowledgeinfrastructures.org/__;!!DZ3fjg!twlKliGLFgz_gw2KnF6UZcHecRNWpUtN2WiqLk2QkP2Sn0cxJG40wtKC_LfS93KLHg$ >, by a team led by Christine Borgman - my last trip before shutdown (*sniff*). Lee and I also touched on it in The Innovation Delusion, highlighting the contrast between high-prestige ?innovative? occupations and lower-prestige occupations (many of which, as Mike Rowe noted in the segment, have been recast as ?essential? during the pandemic).
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> Here?s my brief paper from that workshop, responding to prompts from the organizers: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8j8466b7__;!!DZ3fjg!twlKliGLFgz_gw2KnF6UZcHecRNWpUtN2WiqLk2QkP2Sn0cxJG40wtKC_LdbLch1kw$ . 
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> I?d be really interested to chat with people who could be tempted to join forces to do more research/writing/advocacy about these issues - or to get connected with people or groups who are already doing just that. 
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> Take care everyone - 
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> Andy
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> Andrew L. Russell, Ph.D.
> + Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, SUNY Polytechnic Institute
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> + Co-Author, The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576816/the-innovation-delusion-by-lee-vinsel-and-andrew-l-russell/__;!!DZ3fjg!twlKliGLFgz_gw2KnF6UZcHecRNWpUtN2WiqLk2QkP2Sn0cxJG40wtKC_LeMKhSs8g$ >
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>> On Feb 18, 2021, at 9:06 PM, Ed Summers <ehs at pobox.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I thought of The Maintainers while watching this segment on the PBS
>> News Hour tonight. Maybe you'll like it too.
>> 
>> With millions looking for work, stigmas create a dearth of skilled
>> tradespeople / Paul Solman
>> 
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/with-millions-looking-for-work-stigmas-create-a-dearth-of-skilled-tradespeople__;!!DZ3fjg!twlKliGLFgz_gw2KnF6UZcHecRNWpUtN2WiqLk2QkP2Sn0cxJG40wtKC_LcwVE5x6Q$ 
>> 
>> "The push for one form of education in my view really was the beginning
>> of a long list of stigmas, myths and misperceptions that to this day
>> dissuade millions of kids from pursuing a legitimate opportunity to
>> make six figures in the trades."
>> 
>> "There are entire categories of work that are shrouded in mystery and
>> if we don't demystify them and destigmatize them we're going to be
>> waiting for plumbers and electricians for a long, long time."
>> 
>> //Ed
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