EditorialA combination photo shows, clockwise from top left, Ravikumar Sharma, a driver, Amar Nath, a farmer, Vijaykumar Sharma, an electrician, and Rajeshkumar Sharma, a farmer, members of the Village Defense Guard that patrol at night, in Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, India on Feb. 1, 2023. (Atul Loke/The New York Times)
EditorialA combination photo shows, clockwise from top left, Ravikumar Sharma, a driver, Amar Nath, a farmer, Vijaykumar Sharma, an electrician, and Rajeshkumar Sharma, a farmer, members of the Village Defense Guard that patrol at night, in Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, India on Feb. 1, 2023. (Atul Loke/The New York Times)
EditorialShawn Fain, an electrician who has been a United Auto Workers member for 28 years and is running for the union presidency, in Shelby Township, Mich., July 29, 2022. (Sarah Rice/The New York Times)
EditorialDerek Frank, now an electrician, at the Northland Workforce Training Center in Buffalo, N.Y. on June 11, 2022. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
EditorialA prayer at a gathering of relatives in the home of Yurii Brukhal, an electrician by trade who volunteered for Ukraine’s territorial defense forces and was recently killed in fierce frontline fighting, in Rudne, Ukraine, June 18, 2022. (Emile Ducke/The New York Times)
EditorialMichael Boyle, who lost his work as head electrician for the Bob Carr Theater, at his home in Orlando, Fla., April 29, 2020. (Eve Edelheit/The New York Times)
EditorialKael Kirkpatrick, the store manager of a Starbucks, chats with electrician Steffen Caston, as he picks up an order in downtown Detroit, Mich., Wednesday, May 27, 2020. (Brittany Greeson/The New York Times)