Social Justice Week--On the Front Lines of the Pandemic: Racialized Workers and COVID
Tuesday, October 26 2021
The pandemic has highlighted and further entrenched deep rooted structural inequalities embedded in the social, political and economic fabric of capitalist society. Inequalities framed through systems of white supremacy and racial domination have manifested themselves in a number of ways including differential levels of exposure to the virus, the execution of the vaccine roll outs, and unevenly shared financial hardships and other burdens.
With a particular spotlight on the experiences of Personal Support Workers working in the heart of the COVID storm in Long Term Care facilities, this podcast focuses on the ways in which systemic racism manifests itself in the Canadian context -- unearthing how the ongoing racialization of the Canadian labour market has impacted workers. This podcast is the first of a series that will focus on capturing and highlighting the experiences of racialized frontline workers during COVID. Organized by the Unifor National Chair in Social Justice and Democracy.
For more info (including speaker bios) & Youtube & Soundcloud links: https://www.ryerson.ca/socialjustice/social-justice-week/2021/10/on-the-...
* please not neither the Youtube or Soundcloud links have been posted yet (for any event for SJW) but will be later
Contact the event organizers: Organizer 2023