Mutual aid versus volunteerism: Autonomous PPE production in the Covid-19 pandemic crisis

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Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic crisis has confirmed neoliberal capitalism’s inability to meet critical social needs. In the United Kingdom, mutual aid initiatives based on ‘solidarity not charity’ blossomed in a context of state incompetence and private sector negligence – including Scrub Hub, a network of groups that autonomously produced personal protective equipment and provided it directly to health workers. Using a convergence of autonomist and anarchist perspectives, this article examines Scrub Hub as an example of emergent autonomous political economies and considers the challenges of resisting co-optation into volunteerist hierarchies and suppression by the neoliberal state.

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Lachowicz, K., & Donaghey, J. (2022). Mutual aid versus volunteerism: Autonomous PPE production in the Covid-19 pandemic crisis. Capital and Class, 46(3), 427–447. https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168211057686

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