Death world economy: Race, meat-processing plants, and COVID-19
分析了美国肉类加工厂在COVID-19疫情中工人被当作可牺牲劳动力的现象，指出这是种族化历史过程的结果，并提出了“死亡世界经济”概念来描述企业与国家如何将工人置于疾病和死亡风险中。
As COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths ravaged US meat-processing facilities, companies and officials supported production instead of people. Analyzing the content of newspaper articles, court records, press releases, and company websites, we argue that (1) despite their “essential” status, meat factory workers are a disposable labor force; and (2) factory worker dispensability is the result of a racialized historical process. The expendability of primarily immigrant and people of color laborers takes place in what we call a “death world economy”—a system through which corporations, together with the state, normalize the relegation of bodies to disease, injury, and death across time and space. Responding to the intensification of this violence during COVID-19, plant employees and their families advocate for their communities’ safety needs, highlight industry inaction, and demand accountability from companies and state officials.