{"id":3908,"date":"2020-11-05T16:31:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T21:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=3908"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:13:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:13:40","slug":"lecture-pension-fund-capitalism-and-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/event\/lecture-pension-fund-capitalism-and-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture: Pension Fund Capitalism and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p>All are invited to attend the Institute of Political Economy\u2019s Visiting Professor Lecture by Kevin Skerrett,&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Pension Fund Capitalism and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Canada:&nbsp;A Socialist Perspective.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1275\" height=\"2100\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/Pension-Fund-Poster-Draft-41.png\" alt=\"Poster for Event: Pension Fund Capitalism and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Canada: A Socialist Perspective. Blocks of White, Grey and Red background with text overlay. Image of presenter with grey hair, black suit and glasses. Text reads: The devastating social and economic impacts of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic in Canada have been felt widely. But the key statistic of the death rate has been heavily concentrated: over 80% of the deaths from Covid-19 have taken place in Long-Term Care of various types. How did Long-Term Care \u2013 a vital component of the health care system \u2013 become so privatized, within a system that is so widely and proudly viewed as public? This talk will examine this topic in the light of recent debates on the commodification of social reproduction, financialization, and pension fund capitalism. It will conclude with a discussion of the \u201cMake Revera Public\u201d campaign and other transformational strategies.\" class=\"wp-image-3918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/Pension-Fund-Poster-Draft-41.png 1275w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/Pension-Fund-Poster-Draft-41-240x395.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/Pension-Fund-Poster-Draft-41-400x659.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/Pension-Fund-Poster-Draft-41-160x264.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/Pension-Fund-Poster-Draft-41-768x1265.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/Pension-Fund-Poster-Draft-41-933x1536.png 933w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/Pension-Fund-Poster-Draft-41-1243x2048.png 1243w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/Pension-Fund-Poster-Draft-41-360x593.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kevin Skerrett<\/strong> is currently serving as a <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/visiting-professors\/\">Fall 2020 Visiting Professor<\/a> at the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. He was a co-editor of the Cornell University Press volume <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornellpress.cornell.edu\/book\/9780913447147\/the-contradictions-of-pension-fund-capitalism\/#bookTabs=1\">The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism<\/a> (2018). He is on leave from his work as a Senior Research Officer assigned to pensions at CUPE, the Canadian Union of Public Employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr. Stephanie<\/strong> <strong>Ross<\/strong>, Associate Professor, Director, School of Labour Studies, McMaster University, will be moderating this lecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_p3UsRAtcT_-JUR2HVFt0PA\">Click Here to Register<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[13],"class_list":["post-3908","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_audience-anyone"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2020-11-18T19:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2020-11-18T20:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"political_economy@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/3908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/3908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=3908"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=3908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}