Next week, a virtual symposium will highlight past and possible future strikes by care workers, the vast majority of whom are women.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, March 10, members of the Brock community are invited to take part in an online symposium entitled, \u201cPostpandemic Care Strikes: Centring Migration and Critical Race perspectives<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n The event, hosted by Simon Black in Brock\u2019s Department of Labour Studies and Maud Perrier of the University of Bristol, will feature speakers from unions and organizations representing care workers in both the formal and informal care sectors in the Global North and Global South.<\/p>\n \u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the crisis of care, but also laid bare how this crisis impacts women and families differentially depending on social location,\u201d says Black. \u201cAs we exit the pandemic, how care workers globally assert the value of their work and demand recognition, respect and better pay is a question we will explore in this symposium.\u201d<\/p>\n Black says labour history often focuses on major industrial strikes and action by working men, but that view overlooks a long tradition of women\u2019s care strikes, including a few key examples:<\/p>\n Next week\u2019s event will look at such issues as how strikes could tackle racial divisions in care work and the possibilities of international and cross-sector care strikes in the context of this history.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have an excellent lineup of speakers representing care worker organizations from both the Global North and Global South, including a keynote talk by Premilla Nadasen, a Professor of History at Barnard College at Columbia University,\u201d says Black. \u201cDr. Nadasen has researched and written extensively about the visions of liberation of poor and working-class women of colour, including in the domestic workers’ movement.\u201d<\/p>\n The symposium is part of the Sociological Review Seminar Series<\/a> and funded by the Sociological Review Foundation. Anyone interested in attending the virtual symposium can register online for free through Eventbrite<\/a>.<\/p>\n What<\/strong>: Postpandemic Care Strikes: Centring Migration and Critical Race perspectives Next week, a virtual symposium will highlight past and possible future strikes by care workers, the vast majority of whom are women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":76875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9794,1,38],"tags":[110,522,3856],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76874,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76873\/revisions\/76874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nWhen<\/strong>: Thursday, March 10 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
\nWhere<\/strong>: Online<\/a>
\nTo register<\/strong>: Visit the event web page on Eventbrite<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"