Covid Work Stories archives people’s experiences of living and working through COVID-19
Covid Work Stories is a joint project of the Carleton Centre for Public History and Ingenium: Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, with assistance from the Workers’ History Museum. Covid Work Stories was funded by a Carleton University COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant.
We wanted to know how people had to adjust their working lives because of COVID-19. We asked seven individuals to share their stories. They work in a variety of industries and they speak about how they had to change the way they worked, and why, and what they think they might carry on doing once the pandemic is over. Listen to the workers who have shared their stories with us and now with you.
We asked specific questions focusing on science and technology which helped us create resources for teachers and small museums. Teachers will find some useful tools for discussing the pandemic in the classroom in our Educational Resources. Small museums seeking to acquire artifacts related to the pandemic will find those identified by our interviewees helpful.
All visitors to the site will find links to other COVID-19 projects, exhibits, archives, and media accounts. We also offer a small online exhibit of postage stamps celebrating front-line and essential workers across the world.
Our project has created three sections of resources:
Looking towards the future we are confident our project has created an archive that will be useful for anyone interested in reading and hearing about the experience of working with COVID-19 from its first detection in Canada in January 2020 through to July 2022 when most restrictions have been lifted. As we move into more familiar working environments, it is clear that the way we work will never quite be the same.
We invite you to further explore the collected memories of COVID Work Stories at: https://covidworkstories.ca/
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