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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fischer, Leandros

Titel

Essential Workers Without Essential Rights: COVID-19, Migrant Workers, and Trade Unions

Ist Teil von

• The Crisis-Mobility Nexus, 2024, p.111-134

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The COVID-19COVID-19 pandemic witnessed a drastic reconfiguration of public discourse, primarily evident in the celebration of ‘essential workers’, such as those employed in the care and logistics sectors of the economy. Especially as migrant and/or racialised workers are overrepresented in these sectors, this chapter looks at the effects of virus-related mobility restrictions on those whose mobility was already restricted or precarious. Making use of concepts, such as the ‘reserve army of labour’, ‘social rightssocial rights’, and ‘precarity’, this chapter attempts to answer the question if the newly found respect for ‘essential workers’ has been translated into an improvement of the position of precarious migrant labour, while also looking at the highly contradictory role of trade unionstrade unions during the pandemic.