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SUMMARY:Start Early\, Stay Late: Planning for Care in Old Age
DESCRIPTION:Socialist Register 2021 authors Pat and Hugh Armstrong\nCovid-19 has exposed too many weaknesses in the neoliberal capitalist system to count\, especially when it comes to the most vulnerable. For 10 years our international\, interdisciplinary research team has been documenting the profound weaknesses in nursing home care within Canada\, Germany\, Norway\, Sweden\, the UK\, and the US. Many of the current deficits in resident care originate in various forms of privatization central to neoliberalism. Especially in Canada\, the UK\, and the US\, nursing homes that are heavily funded by the public purse have been handed over to corporations\, providing them with guaranteed pay and often guaranteed full houses. \nThe lines between for-profit and not have become increasingly blurred by various neoliberal strategies. One of these involves non-profit and state-owned homes contracting out services to for-profit firms as – in denial of the literature on the determinants of health – services such as food\, housekeeping\, and laundry have been defined out of care and dismissed as ancillary. This contracting out has not only undermined teamwork\, but has also resulted in poor food\, inadequate cleaning\, and limited laundry – all of which threaten health. At the same time\, fewer and fewer spaces are available in these homes with government funding. The result is twofold. All those who manage to get into these homes have high care needs\, and those who cannot are either forced into the for-profit sector or rely more on unpaid care\, most of which is provided by women. For too many\, neither of these is an option. Another strategy blurring the lines is the promotion of for-profit managerial strategies within the non-profit and public nursing homes that remain. This means the lowest possible staffing levels\, the shifting of as much work as possible to those with the least formal training\, limiting workers’ autonomy\, pay\, hours\, and benefits\, and relying on a labor force already made vulnerable by gender\, racialization\, and immigration status. \nBarely enough services pre-pandemic have proven to be not nearly enough during the pandemic – which has exposed the disastrous life-altering or lethal consequences of all these developments for those elderly requiring care. \nPat Armstrong is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at York University. Hugh Armstrong is Emeritus Professor of Social Work at Carleton University. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Email info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com for admission to this event or any other events or classes of The MEP.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/start-early-stay-late-planning-for-care-in-old-age/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Globalization,Healthcare,Housing,Multi-session Classes,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Final Friday Film: American Dream by Barbara Kopple
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Barbara Kopple\nUSA\, 1990\, 100 min \n In 1984 the Hormel meat-packing company offered the union workers in Austin\, Minnesota a new contract\, cutting their wages from $10.69 per hour to $8.25 per hour—benefits would be cut by 30 percent. The workers were not filled with joy. The company had just declared an annual profit of $29 million\, the cuts were inspired by owners wanting to maximize profits beyond that on the backs and cuts in health and life spans of the workers and their families. \nAmerican Dream chronicles the six-month strike that followed during 1985 and 1986 at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin\, Minnesota. The local union\, P-9 of the Food and Commercial Workers\, overwhelmingly rejected a contract offer with a $2/hour wage cut. Following this the meat workers strike and hire a New York consultant to manage a national media campaign against Hormel. Despite support from P-9’s rank and file\, FCWU’s international disagrees with the strategy. In addition to union-company tension\, there’s union-union in-fighting. Hormel holds firm; scabs\, replacement workers\, brothers on opposite sides\, a union coup d’état\, and a new contract materialize. The film asks\, was it worth it\, or was the strike a long-term disaster for organized labor? \nIn many ways\, the Hormel plant in bucolic Minnesota seemed like the least likely site for a labor-management inferno. The company’s founders had been of a paternalistic bent\, and Austin’s hourly wage of $10.69 was the industry standard. But in 1984\, despite profits of $29 million\, Hormel announced plans to cut that wage by 23%. “What are we going to have to give up\,” one worker worried\, “when they show a loss for the quarter?”—Kenneth Turan\, Los Angeles Times\, March 1992 \nBarbara Kopple\, who had previously covered an extended miner’s strike in the acclaimed 1976 documentary Harlan County\, USA\, focuses on the personalities and emotions behind the strike\, creating a highly charged portrait of labor that is sympathetic to the workers’ distress without ignoring the strike’s greater ambiguities. \n  \nTicket prices are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/final-friday-film-american-dream-by-barbara-kopple/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fascism: Then and Now
DESCRIPTION:Fascism Then and Now: A Community Roundtable \nFriends of the MEP and the Left community at large are invited to discuss the meaning and signficance of fascism and how to recognize it and struggle against it in world politics today. We hope to debate questions such as: What is the nature of fascism in relation to nationalism/racism\, misogyny\, social/community dissolution? Is or is not the Trump phenomenon an example or at least a precursor of fascism in the USA? Are there important political movements in other countries that could be called fascist? Is the social psychology of fascism the same today as it was in the 20th century? Are theAre there other forms of authoritarian capitalism that are not fascism\, and why might it matter? Current facilitators are Peter Bratsis\, Michael Pelias\, Dan Karan\, Alex Steinberg\, David Worley (moderator).  \nOthers are welcome to join as facilitators; each facilitator will offer a three minute (no longer) opening statement\, after which the floor will be open for general discussion. \nThe image is from a deck of anti-fascist playing cards created during the Siege of Leningrad in 1943
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/the-syriza-wave/
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SUMMARY:We Make Our Own History: On Marxism and Social Movements
DESCRIPTION:We Make Our Own History: On Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism\nTalk and Discussion with Alf Gunvald Nilsen \nWe live in the twilight of neoliberalism: the ruling classes can no longer rule as before\, and ordinary people are no longer willing to be ruled in the old way. Pursued by global elites since the 1970s\, neoliberalism is defined by dispossession and ever-increasing inequality. The refusal to continue to be ruled like this — “ya basta!” — appears in an arc of resistance stretching from rural India to the cities of the global North.  \nWe Make Our Own History — a book co-written by Laurence Cox and Alf Gunvald Nilsen — investigates this scenario through an exploration of how social movements are forging new visions of a future beyond neoliberalism and by reclaiming Marxism as a theory born from activist experience and practice. In this talk\, Alf Gunvald Nilsen will discuss some of the main arguments and ideas put forward in the book with reference to changing movement landscapes in different parts of the world-system.  \nAlf Gunvald Nilsen is associate professor of sociology at the University of Bergen (Norway) and Visiting Senior Researcher at the Society\, Work and Development Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). He is the author of Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the Rage (Routledge\, 2010) and the co-editor of numerous books on social movement theory and research\, including Marxism and Social Movements (Brill/Haymarket\, 2013) and New Subaltern Politics: Reconceptualizing Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary India (Oxford University Press\, 2015).
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/we-make-our-own-history-on-marxism-and-social-movements/
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