Issue 2: Labour in a Treacherous Time

Our second edition of Syndemic Magazine discusses class, labour, and Covid-19.

Covid, Class, and Consciousness: Reflections from the Third Year of the Plague, by Edward Dunsworth

The restauranteurs are worried. Two years into the pandemic, and it’s getting harder and harder to find good workers. “It’s…

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Global supply chains and the pandemic: Experiences of readymade garment workers in Bangladesh, by Nausheen Quayyum

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a crisis like no other and like all others at the same time. On the…

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Invisible No More: The Migrant Workers of India, by Ranabir Samaddar

March, 2020. Up until 24 March, the official Covid-19 death toll in India stood at 12. Over 500 persons had…

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We’re not in this together: Necropolitics, Necrocapitalism and Racialized Migrant Communities’ Experiences during Covid-19, by Ethel Tungohan

Covid-19 has led to a crisis in social reproduction. Numerous articles highlighting how this crisis has disproportionately affected women[1] and immigrant,…

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“Canada’s Dirty Secret”: An Interview with Gabriel Allahdua about migrant farm workers’ pandemic experience

On 21 January 2022, Gabriel sat down with guest editor Edward Dunsworth for a conversation about the impact of the…

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‘The Cost of Free Shipping?’ Living in the Age of Amazon Capitalism, by Mostafa Henaway

Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese, The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy. London: Pluto Press, 2020. 320…

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An Interview with Noam Chomsky

This transcript has been edited for clarity and length. Dr. Chomsky was jointly sponsored by the Wilson Institute and by…

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An Interview with Naomi Klein

This transcript has been edited for clarity and length. Thank you so much Naomi Klein for joining us virtually tonight…

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An Interview with Mike Davis

This transcript has been edited for clarity and length. MCKAY: Thank you so much for joining us. It’s a great…

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