As we say in the manifesto itself, workers are not one type of stakeholder among many: they hold the keys to their employers’ success. They invest their lives, their time, and their sweat to serve the organizations that they work for and their customers. What these crises are first and foremost teaching us is that humans never were and are not resources. And yet, the solution we put forth in a joint manifesto, which has now been signed by 5,000 academics around the world, outlines a solution-democratizing work- that we hope can contribute to fighting the health, economic, social, and political crises stemming from COVID-19, as well as the longstanding crisis of anti-Black racism, for which calls for change have intensified in the wake of the tragic murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department. In May, Isabelle Ferreras, Dominique Méda, and I joined forces to ask a simple question: What can we learn from the crises that we are facing? At the time, admittedly, our thinking was focused on making it through the COVID-19 period only. The status quo must change if we hope to survive the combined health, social, economic, political, and environmental crises at hand. Moreover, we are pushing the limits of what our natural world can endure.
The current levels of social and economic inequality both globally and locally have become untenable, and the current pandemic only reinforces these inequalities. Taubman Center for State and Local GovernmentĪs the United States and countries around the world consider re-opening after COVID-19, we are faced with a crucial question: Is our current societal model working and, if not, what kind of societal model do we want for tomorrow? Staying the course would be a recipe for disaster.Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.
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