diff --git a/content/session/mutualaidfortheunemployed.md b/content/session/mutualaidfortheunemployed.md index 1ef6505..4308ab6 100644 --- a/content/session/mutualaidfortheunemployed.md +++ b/content/session/mutualaidfortheunemployed.md @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ images: ["/topic/coronanotes/care-curve.jpg"] --- +*Questo documento ha una versione in italiano:![](itmutualaidfortheunemploied.md)* # Precarity, layoffs and moneylessness As public events are getting cancelled, educational, cultural and recreational institutions closed, measures of distancing, home isolation and quarantine introduced, and the economy slows down, the outbreak creates conditions of unemployment, where workers suddenly face rent, subsistence and medical costs they are no longer able to cover. First affected are the precarious - temporary, zero-hour, on-demand and freelance - workers, and among them inordinately [women](https://www.actainrete.it/2020/03/03/limpatto-del-coronavirus-sui-freelance-i-risultati-di-un-sondaggio/) and migrants. They will be joined by parents with kids that can't go to nurseries, kindergartens and schools or carers attending to the elderly or disabled members of the family in isolation, who will have to give up their work to attend to those who need their care. As the pandemic spreads and persists, the employers will be shedding workers, adding many more to those who already are in a situation of insecurity. At the same time, many precarious workers who belong to at-risk groups and should stay at home will have to continue to work in overexposed conditions as cleaners and carers as they cannot afford not to work.