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SUMMARY:Pension Fund Capitalism and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Canada: A Socialist Perspective
DESCRIPTION:The devastating social and economic impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Canada have been felt widely. But the key statistic of the death rate has been heavily concentrated: over 80% of the deaths from COVID-19 have taken place in Long-Term Care of various types. \nHow did Long-Term Care – a vital component of the healthcare system – become so privatized\, within a system that is so widely and proudly viewed as public? \nThis talk will examine the class politics of pension fund investment into for-profit Long-Term Care as a disturbing example of the commodification of social reproduction. \nKevin Skerrett is currently serving as a Fall 2020 Visiting Professor at the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. He was a co-editor of the Cornell University Press volume The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism (2018). He is on leave from his work as a Senior Research Officer assigned to pensions at CUPE\, the Canadian Union of Public Employees. \nStephanie Ross\, Director\, School of Labour Studies\, McMaster University\, is chairing the seminar. The talk will be followed by a Q&A period.  \nRegister on zoom. \nOrganizer: Institute of Political Economy\, MA in Political Economy and Diploma in Work and Labour.
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SUMMARY:UK Launch of The Socialist Register 2021: Beyond Digital Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:As digital technology became integral to the capitalist market dystopia of the first decades of the 21st century\, it not only refashioned our ways of communicating but of working and consuming\, indeed ways of living. Even as the COVID-19 pandemic revealed not only the lack of investment\, planning and preparation that underlay the scandalous slowness of the responses by states around the world\, but also grotesque class and racial inequalities as it coursed its way through the population\, the owners of high-tech corporations were enriched by tens of billions of dollars. Rejecting both technological determinism and facile ‘cyber-utopian’ thinking\, the 57th annual volume of the Socialist Register addresses how to imagine\, struggle for\, and plan for\, new democratic socialist ways of living after the pandemic. \nPanelists: \n\nIntroductions: Hilary Wainwright (@hilarypepper) and Leo Panitch\n\nUK essay contributors: \n\nGrace Blakeley (@graceblakeley) ‘The big tech monopolies and the state’\nUrsula Huws (@Ursulahuws) ‘Reaping the whirlwind: Digitalization\, restructuring & mobilization in the Covid crisis’\nMatthew Cole (@matthewacole) & Charles Umney (@CharlesUmney) ‘The political economy of datafication and work’\nBenjamin Selwyn ‘Community restaurants: Decommodifying food as socialist strategy’\nMassimiliano Mollona ‘Working class cinema in the age of digital capitalism’\n\nDiscussants: \n\nMarzena Zukowska (@MarzenaZukowska)\, Red Pepper and Radical Communicators Network\nJohn McDonnell (@johnmcdonnellMP)\, Labour MP\, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer 2015-2020
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/uk-launch-sr-2021/
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