A spectre is haunting the world—the spectre of pandemic.1 Invisible to the eye, and indeed even to all but the most powerful electron microscopes, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has nonetheless created panic around the globe. It has brought the world economic… Continue Reading
Around 2.7 billion workers worldwide have been affected by full or partial lockdown measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic—around 81 percent of the world’s 3.3 billion workforce. The world economy has seen nothing like this. Nearly all economic forecasts for… Continue Reading
The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has touched all economic, social and political affairs globally. Because our generation lacks any experience of a pandemic on this scale, it is easy to feel disorientated and without bearings. One potential way to deal with… Continue Reading
A pandemic is first of all a public health crisis. But when containing the infection requires a dramatic reduction in social contact, it rapidly becomes a workplace issue. Under normal circumstances, each day millions of people are concentrated in often… Continue Reading
Nelson Mandela used to say: “I never lose, I either win or I learn.” That is our motto. A striking RATP worker addresses an interprofessional assembly.1 While announcing the closure of schools and nurseries in a speech on the evening… Continue Reading
Marx says that revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the passengers on this train—namely, the human race—to activate the emergency brake. Walter Benjamin, 1940, Notes for “On… Continue Reading