A new world of work is needed if we are to tackle growing inequality and injustice, writes Guy Ryder
This pandemic has laid bare in the cruellest way the extraordinary precariousness and injustices of our world of workAn empty clothing market in Johannesburg shut during SA's lockdown. Picture: THULANI MBELE
But with the war against Covid-19 still to be won, it has become commonly accepted that what awaits us after victory is a “new normal” in the way society is organised and the way we will work. This is hardly reassuring, because nobody seems able to say what the new normal will be. This pandemic has laid bare in the cruellest way the extraordinary precariousness and injustices of our world of work. It is the decimation of livelihoods in the informal economy — where six out of 10 workers make a living — that has ignited warnings from our colleagues in the World Food Programme of the coming pandemic of hunger.
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