Colonialism

Covid-19 and the Caring of the Working Class: A View from the UK
Mike Haynes

Care, Covid 19 and Domestic Work in Latin America: An Opportunity for Recognition
Tallulah Lines and Jean Grugel

Social oppression, emotional labour and collective care
Pankhuri Agarwal
Resisting social hierarchies and their borders that structure space is no easy work. Besides the possibility of threat and arrest, it takes an emotional and mental toll. In the current political climate, how can we continue to resist social oppression?

Forgotten ‘Heroes’: Frontline Nurses’ Experiences of the Covid-19 Crisis
Radha Adhikari, Sushila Karki-Budhathoki, Kate Weir
The government’s appropriation of health professionals as ‘NHS Heroes’ has been mainly a way of keeping the issue of economic and social justice at bay, without making any meaningful political commitment to improve workers’ long-term wellbeing.

Everyday Re-enchantments: Plants and the Labour of Care in the Time of Covid-19
Gavin Maclean

Nanny Solidarity Now: The Nanny Regulation Movement as Racialized Class War
Veronica Deutsch
The regulation movement is led entirely by white British women, yet migrant workers make up at least 47% of the sector. These groups benefit from implicitly racist and classist structures by centering themselves as the “qualified” option.
March to September: A Father’s Story
Abuajela Elatrsh and Benjamin Morgan

Cuidar en tiempos de crisis: Internacionalismo médico en Cuba
Sarah Stephens, Justine Williams, Mariakarla Nodarse

Caring in Crisis: Medical Internationalism in Cuba
Sarah Stephens, Justine Williams and Mariakarla Nodarse

A Plea from Jakarta: May Empathy and Sympathy be the New Normal
Wisnu Adihartono

“Our physical and mental health are most affected by our material conditions”: The Struggle of Frontline Health Workers in India
Sanjana Santosh
Facing the pressure to do multiple surveys along with their routine work, frontline health workers in India wonder why the collected data is so valued while their labour and time congealed within the data remain undervalued.

Altered Routines, Diminished Solidarity and Invisibility: The Experience of Live-in ‘Child Nurses’ During the Pandemic
Deepali Aparajita Dungdung
None of these women have left their workspaces since the pandemic began. Normally they would travel to meet their friends on the non-working Sundays. Unfortunately, the pandemic has ceased the Sunday gatherings, curtailing further these women’s opportunity for solidarity.

Take Me Back to the Old World
Earl Carlo Guevarra

Social Welfare Strike: A Call to Action from the Academy
Semassa Boko

Una breve introducción a CUIDAR: Estudio sobre tiempos, formas, y espacios de cuidado en casa durante la pandemia
Sebastian Rojas Navarro, Maria-Alejandra Energici, Nicolas Schongut-Grollmus, Samanta Alarcon Arcos

CUIDAR means CARE : A study about times, forms, and spaces of care within the household during the pandemic
Sebastian Rojas Navarro, Maria-Alejandra Energici, Nicolas Schongut-Grollmus, Samanta Alarcon Arcos

Racialized Class Inequality is a Death Sentence: An Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the UK
Cameron Boyle
From housing to healthcare to employment, those outside dominant whiteness are left behind. And now, they are directly exposed to the worst public health crisis that has been seen in peacetime.

Nannies in Lockdown: Virtue, Power, and the Value of Women’s Work
Veronica Deutsch
Despite their perceived lack of value, during the Coronavirus pandemic nannies are being framed as an essential and urgent service. If these nannies and their ‘unskilled’ labour are an economic necessity, perhaps fair remuneration for hazardous work shouldn’t be off the table.

RISK: CARE: RESPONSIBILITY: SOLIDARITY? Essential Labour during the Covid-19 Pandemic in India
Gayatri Nair, Paro Mishra and Anindita Majumdar
COVID-19, Racialisation and Care: Nepali Healthcare Practitioners’ Frontline Experience
Radha Adhikari