Sat 20/03 Day School: The Critical University: Women and the Pandemic

The Critical University: Women and the Pandemic

11 am -1 pm: Part I The World We Are Fighting Against

Terry Conway (What the Pandemic highlights about women's oppression)

Susan Pashkoff (Economic discussion of oppression tied to social reproduction, women's labour and what the pandemic revealed)

Readings for the first part of the discussion

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/10/1468042/-Anti-Capitalist-Meetup-Social-Reproduction-and-Women-s-Oppression

https://socialistresistance.org/womens-labour-and-c-19/19991

https://medium.com/therword/love-in-covid-times-with-terry-conway-e578610d1064

https://labourbriefing.org/blog/2020/4/28/dk1h70j1tsn542cdq2op33ailg8n8l

https://fourth.international/en/510/299

BREAK for one hour

2-4 pm: Part II The World we are Struggling For

Ozlem Onaran: Care-led Recovery, Purple Job Creation

Ali Treacher The Care Sector and how to change it; a discussion of transitional demands.

Readings for the second part of the discussion

Slides: https://www.dropbox.com/s/evd7191e5nckcfk/covid%20onaran%20labour%20women%20critical%20uni.pptx?dl=0

Onaran, Ö. 2018. Public Investment in Social Infrastructure for a Caring, Sustainable and Productive Economy, in Economics for the Many, ed. McDonnell, J., Verso, Onaran, 2018  https://www.dropbox.com/s/f9t65fwpsxmzd25/labour%20party%20book%20onaran1.pdf?dl=0 (link to book not downloadable: Verso (versobooks.com)

Onaran 2016. "The role of gender equality in an equality-led sustainable development strategy“, in ed. Himmelweit et al, Routledge http://gala.gre.ac.uk/14077/1/GPERC26_OnaranF.pdf

https://spectrejournal.com/sympathy-wont-win-us-better-conditions/

https://youtu.be/GCvDQZqHvC4

Additional Readings

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/3/15/1371096/-Anti-Capitalist-Meetup-24-hour-Childcare-A-Revolutionary-idea-that-is-an-obtainable-reform

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/12/1714940/-Anti-Capitalist-Meetup-On-the-Oppression-of-Women-and-Violence-Against-Women

https://wbg.org.uk/analysis/reports/a-care-led-recovery-from-coronavirus/

Onaran, Oyvat, Fotopoulou 2019, “The effects of gender inequality, wages, wealth concentration and fiscal policy on demand, productivity, employment and public finance” forthcoming Feminist Economics,  Policy Brief and Report (Technical)

https://www.prometheusjournal.org/2020/07/25/social-care-factory/

Sara Farris (MIgration and Surplus Populations)

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/27940/2/Farris_Social%20Reproduction%20and%20Racialised%20Surplus%20Population.pdf

https://newsocialist.org/social-reproduction-surplus-populations-and-the-role-of-migrant-women/