Covid-19 Archives - Worlds of Related Coercions in WorK

Burdens of the Search for Profit. Looking Beyond the “Corporate Regulations” of the RMG Industry in Bangladesh

Mohammad Tareq Hasan — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 14:31:15 +0000

The Accord on Fire and Building Safety – popularly known as the Accord – passed on the responsibility to ensure safe workplaces for Ready-made Garment (RMG) workers to a newly formed RMG Sustainability Council (RSC) on 31 May. The Accord left after operating for seven years in Bangladesh. By Mohammad [...]

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Home Work, not “Home Office”. Academic Labor in and after the State of Emergency

Peter-Paul Bänziger — Thu, 28 May 2020 16:49:59 +0000

Against the background of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic, changes in the working world have become widely discussed. The debate centers on care and nursing work, employees in retail and logistics, voluntary work, precarization and educational inequality, and, last but not least, the compulsion to work that certain occupational groups are confronted with.1 Comparatively rarely is [...]

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Unconditional Basic Income and the Dream of a Life Free of Coercions

Albert Jörimann — Sat, 23 May 2020 21:12:07 +0000

Unconditional Basic Income is often mentioned as a means to resolve at least part of the income problems for a significant number of people during the COVID-lockdown. There are manifold proposals, including the temporary introduction of an UBI scheme for all or part of the society. However, despite this wave of well-intended proposals, it [...]

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In Solidarity through the Crisis. Precarious Academia in Times of Pandemic

NGAWiss — Sun, 10 May 2020 22:35:32 +0000

The Network for Decent Labour in Academia supports the open letter signed by 11.000 colleagues to declare the summer term 2020 a ‘non-‚ or ‘flexi-semester‘, respectively (https://www.nichtsemester.de/cbxpetition/offener-brief/). We consider the exact naming less relevant than an acknowledgement of the fact that during the current social lockdown the universities and research institutes cannot continue with [...]

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Precarious and Migrant Labour in Austria through the Lens of the Covid-19 Crisis

Julia Harnoncourt — Tue, 05 May 2020 20:36:00 +0000

During the COVID-19 crisis, where all persons who can, should stay at home, a lot of people lose their jobs, first and foremost migrants and people in precarious labour situations. Migrants already come upon a labour market that is legally very restricted towards them: Asylum seekers are not allowed to work, students from third [...]

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Refugee and Migrant Families in Times of Covid-19 – an Encouraging Example from Vienna

Christine Scholten — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:23:42 +0000

How does Covid-19 affect the groups of society that have already lived pretty isolated before the crisis? Refugee and migrant families often struggle to find their place in the societies they migrate to. In Vienna as in other cities of the Western world, the challenges of cultural difference and language barrier are often multiplied [...]

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Transnational Care Networks in Austria

Flavia Matei — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:17:22 +0000

Capitalism relies on a very simple mechanism. It has only one goal: accumulation. It does that by pursuing profit. That means, it must take out more than it puts in. But that goes against the laws of physics. There is no perpetuum mobile. There is also no way to generate something without regenerating the [...]

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Inequalities, Unemployment and Attacks to Labour Rights in Brazil During COVID-19

Paulo Cruz Terra — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:27:16 +0000

Natasha Silva, 28 years old, lives in a favela in São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil. Mother of three, she was fired from her job as a cleaning assistant, due to COVID-19. In addition to the lack of salary, she faces another drama, the consequence of classes’ suspension is that she needs to [...]

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Systemically Relevant!? A Trade Union Perspective

Roland Brunner — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 10:21:13 +0000

It is astonishing how vulnerable our system is to disturbance. A tiny virus and everything stands still. Not because of our strong arm. The trade unions also stand still. No assemblies; no strikes; no May Day celebrations, our traditional day of struggle. By Roland Brunner (Swiss Trade Union for the [...]

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France: A New “Contrat Social” or “Sweat and Tears” for the Workers?

Claude Chevaleyre — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 20:59:25 +0000

After decades of neoliberal managerial politics leading to a dramatic reduction of the role and efficiency of the French welfare state, the covid-19 health crisis provides us with a crude illustration of the many effects of a dominant ideology that places society at the service of an ever-growing economy. The French confinement experience not [...]

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