22 The Abolition of Capitalist Work and Reimagining Labor
Sundiata K. Cha-Jua and Helen A. Neville
The COVID-19 health pandemic coupled with the increased awareness of the persistence of anti-Black racial oppression in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd sparked a public discussion about how job and employment inequalities reflect and reproduce other social inequalities. For example, Black Americans were at increased risk of dying from the virus in part because of the nature of the jobs we occupy, and the availability and quality of health benefits associated with those positions. During this time frame, scholars were invited to contribute to decolonizing fields of study and to center the experiences of people ...
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