Article: COVID-19: Interrogating the capitalist organization of the economy and society through the pandemic.
Organization (London, England)
2022 Volume 29, Issue 3, Page(s) 369–378
Abstract: This editorial introduces eight papers included in this special issue on COVID-19. Together, these papers draw key theoretical and political insights for critical organization studies from the pandemic along three main lines. First, they examine how ... ...
| Abstract | This editorial introduces eight papers included in this special issue on COVID-19. Together, these papers draw key theoretical and political insights for critical organization studies from the pandemic along three main lines. First, they examine how COVID-19 has denaturalized global capitalism, leading to a broad interrogation of the organization of the economy and our societies. Second, they point to how COVID-19 has unveiled the close relation between capital and the state in producing inequalities old and new, a relation that neoliberalism tends to hide from view. Third, they leverage COVID-19 to give voice to the largely female disposable workforce in the Global South on whose work global commodity flows, consumption and capital accumulation rest. We conclude by pointing to the need to address constitutive interdependencies, such as those between wage work and reproductive work, the global North and the global South, the market and the state, to name only a few. We further call for expanding traditional understandings of struggle to include a broader range of social antagonisms (e.g. for sufficient time to care, education, healthcare, housing, safe public spaces, accessible to all) as part of a theoretically and politically renewed organizational research agenda fostering solidarity. |
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| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2022-03-30 |
| Publishing country | England |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ZDB-ID | 1482825-X |
| ISSN | 1461-7323 ; 1350-5084 |
| ISSN (online) | 1461-7323 |
| ISSN | 1350-5084 |
| DOI | 10.1177/13505084221090633 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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