Call for Papers Asia Labour Update, Special Issue: pandemic, crisis, and the working class on the continent of labour

Call for Papers

Asia Labour Update, Special Issue: pandemic, crisis, and the working class on the continent of labour

Deadline for paper: June 16, 2020

The Asia Labour Update journal returns for a special issue on the COVID-19 global pandemic. Since the COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the globe, the failures of capitalism have become more visible than ever.  By its very nature capitalism generates a series of never ending crises, deflecting its inadequacies through the creation of hierarchies of class, gender, ethnicity, religion, and race. Inequalities among and within these hierarchies are only intensified by the pandemic.  On the continent of labour these inequalities are magnified in a number of ways. To give some examples: the ways in which the state and industry have dealt with the crisis in core and peripheral sectors, the brutal treatment of migrants, the situation of workers in the informal sector, the division of labour within working class families.

This special issue seeks to share a wide variety of essays, commentaries, interviews and reports from around the region on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the working class. We also invite specific articles in a few areas: critical perspectives on the responses of power structures (including organized labour), working class struggles that developed in response to the crisis, and perspectives on divisions and unification of the (global) working class.

Submissions

Authors should submit around 3,000 words (6 pages single spaced) in English by 16 June, 2020. We encourage critical analysis; however, there is no need to write in an academic style. We do expect your submission to be fully fact-checked and contain accurate citations. References should follow the Harvard citation style. You may use this reference generator.

Send your work as an attachment to the email in doc-x file format by email to ashley@amrc.org.hk or abumufakhir@amrc.org.hk.

Final publication date will be in July 2020.