Tag: Care Work
My Fight as a Worker and as a Feminist During COVID-19
The pandemic has highlighted the contradictions between production and social reproduction, making both the various forms of oppression and the cracks in the system more apparent. Maddelena Manca tells the story of women workers who, in addition to facing the choice between health and work, have to carry the burden of domestic labor and childcare.
Only the Rank and File Can Save Us Now
Tre Kwon argues that organizing, workplace action, and basic protective equipment are not privileges, but necessities for saving the lives of nurses and patients.
How “Just-in-Time” Capitalism Spread COVID-19
Historically, epidemics have spread through two forms of movement: trade and war. Kim Moody examines how the pace of this spread accelerated dramatically with the rise of capitalism.
Fighting to Save Lives in a World That Doesn’t Value Them
Bonnie Castillo argues that it was nurses, and not the Trump administration or employers, that prioritized saving lives over money