title: Remembering Ric Pfeffer, celebrating his work.
abstract: This speech was given in a homage celebration to Ric Pfeffer on the occasion of his retirement. The article pays tribute to Ric's life and work, showing how his commitment to improve the life and working conditions of the population of the United States led him to stand up to many powerful forces that determined the nature of awards and visibility in this country. The article concludes that it is because of people like Ric Pfeffer that the quality of life improves for working people, even though the establishment of this country, responsible for most of what is wrong, marginalizes and ignores them.
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
authors.forename: Vicente
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Navarro