Essays Archives - Worlds of Related Coercions in WorK https://worck.eu/category/blog/essays/ WORCK represents a radical change of perspective on labour history Tue, 21 Sep 2021 12:30:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://worck.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cropped-Logo-gros-32x32.png Essays Archives - Worlds of Related Coercions in WorK https://worck.eu/category/blog/essays/ 32 32 Burdens of the Search for Profit. Looking Beyond the “Corporate Regulations” of the RMG Industry in Bangladesh https://worck.eu/2020/06/10/burdens-of-the-search-for-profit/ Wed, 10 Jun 2020 14:31:15 +0000 https://www.worck.eu/?p=2252 The Accord on Fire and Building Safety – popularly known as the Accord – passed on the responsibility to ensure safe workplaces for Ready-made Garment (RMG) workers to a newly formed RMG Sustainability Council (RSC) on 31 May. The Accord left after operating for seven years in Bangladesh. By Mohammad [...]

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]]> Home Work, not “Home Office”. Academic Labor in and after the State of Emergency https://worck.eu/2020/05/28/home-work-not-home-office-academic-labor-in-and-after-the-state-of-emergency/ Thu, 28 May 2020 16:49:59 +0000 https://www.worck.eu/?p=2175 Against the background of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic, changes in the working world have become widely discussed. The debate centers on care and nursing work, employees in retail and logistics, voluntary work, precarization and educational inequality, and, last but not least, the compulsion to work that certain occupational groups are confronted with.1 Comparatively rarely is [...]

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]]> Unconditional Basic Income and the Dream of a Life Free of Coercions https://worck.eu/2020/05/23/unconditional-basic-income-and-the-dream-of-a-life-free-of-coercions/ Sat, 23 May 2020 21:12:07 +0000 https://www.worck.eu/?p=2144 Unconditional Basic Income is often mentioned as a means to resolve at least part of the income problems for a significant number of people during the COVID-lockdown. There are manifold proposals, including the temporary introduction of an UBI scheme for all or part of the society. However, despite this wave of well-intended proposals, it [...]

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]]> “Too Crucial to Fail”: The Corona Crisis and the Future of Work https://worck.eu/2020/04/10/too-crucial-to-fail-the-corona-crisis-and-the-future-of-work/ Fri, 10 Apr 2020 21:06:25 +0000 https://www.worck.eu/?p=1834 In both the international financial crisis of 2008 and the current corona crisis, a national crisis management is shooting up. Nevertheless, there are striking differences between these two crises. Not only in terms of their causes, their dynamics and the question of responsibility. It is the perception of relevance, that is now diametrically different. [...]

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]]> The Covid-19 Crisis: a Change of the Political and Socio-Economic Paradigm in Europe? https://worck.eu/2020/04/09/the-covid-19-crisis-a-change-of-the-political-and-socio-economic-paradigm-in-europe/ Thu, 09 Apr 2020 10:43:29 +0000 https://www.worck.eu/?p=1779 The current emergency against COVID-19 represents the time to read and reread epidemics in history. The responses of European governments and other continents, the measures taken against the contagion, the narrative itself of how an epidemic spread and how it affects the society, represent themes for reflection and analysis. By [...]

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