Welfare state

Navigating education and socialisation: Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on students with disabilities in India
Mridula Muralidharan

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

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

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

“Support Our Students”: Class Aspiration, Online Education and COVID-19
Jagriti Gangopadhyay

“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.

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.

THE DIGNITY OF TIME: CONTRADICTIONS OF WORK AND CARE FOR MIDDLE CLASS WORKING MOTHERS.
Serena Brigidi, Fabiola Mancinelli, Juan M. Leyva-Moral, Marta Ausona Bieto

RISK: CARE: RESPONSIBILITY: SOLIDARITY? Essential Labour during the Covid-19 Pandemic in India
Gayatri Nair, Paro Mishra and Anindita Majumdar

Corporate Care and Solidarity?
Andreas Chatzidakis
Can corporations care, let alone demonstrate solidarity? I had started pondering this question a few months before the Covid-19 pandemic took hold. I vividly recall being in a meeting with the Care Collective and stumbling upon a “Primark Cares” pop-up store on my return home...
COVID-19, Racialisation and Care: Nepali Healthcare Practitioners’ Frontline Experience
Radha Adhikari

Zooming Mum: Lockdown in the Care Home
Kate Carruthers Thomas

Protect our National Health Service (NHS)
Lauren

Caring for Country: Migrant Workers and Affective Work in India
Maansi Parpiani