Editorial: Corona und die Folgen: Gewinner, Verlierer und Chancen für eine neue Gesellschaftspolitik

Abstract

For two years now, the COVID 19 pandemic has dominated politics and society. It has often been emphasized that it acts like a burning glass - not only in the nursing sector and in the health care system. This issue aims to take stock and discuss critical perspectives. What will happen after the Corona disaster? What does the economic crisis that accompanied the pandemic entail? What, for example, are the consequences of the disruption of cross-border value chains for transnational trade union work? What does the everyday political discourse around »systemic relevance« mean for the perspective of a new (socio-ecological) politics of labor? How could Amazon & Co take advantage of the crisis and expand their market power? How did global inequalities and dynamics translate to vaccine production and distribution? Can we assume a permanent "return of the state"? If so, what does that mean in concrete terms? And finally, what is the role of science in policy and its enforcement - especially in the last two years?