COVID-19 calls for the politicisation of supply chain management
The unquestioning faith of supply chain management coupled with free-trade policy has left us unprepared to confront the pandemic.
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Care and clothes: reimagining the value of labour
We need to extend critiques of undervalued labour beyond those with ‘social value’ to engender improvements in the material value of labour globally.
Contemporary geopolitical trends and COVID-19: The return of the political?
The threat posed by the novel Coronavirus has evidently led to a reassertion of political power over economic demands and global market forces.
The Political Economy of COVID-19: SPERI workshop
On June 19th over 30 members of SPERI’s interdisciplinary research community came together for an online workshop to discuss the political economy of COVID-19
Climate Change and COVID-19: What these crises tell us about a modernising approach
Why an ecological, rather than a modernising approach is necessary for tackling contemporary global crises facing our planet.
Advancing gender justice on Asian fast fashion supply chains post-COVID-19: Guidance from ILO’s Convention 190 on it’s first anniversary
On the first anniversary of the ILO’s adoption of C190, we are now grappling with seismic shocks to economic security and public health due to COVID-19.
Studying an uncertain future: Researching political economy in a time of COVID-19, crisis and climate change
A new generation of political economists from SPERI’s Doctoral Researchers Network reflect on where the world may be going in the next ten years.
COVID-19 and the Bank of England
What kind of legacy the coronavirus pandemic bestows on the UK has already been the subject of much analysis in […]
COVID-19: the end of global sourcing?
COVID-19 has pointed out the obvious: the supposed capitalist rationality of supply chains produces short-term profits but increases risk and vulnerability
Should China apologise for COVID 19?
If China should apologise for Covid-19, then perhaps the West should apologise for centuries of harm inflicted on China and other non-Western peoples