ABSTRACT
Throughout the pandemic, workers were forced to continue working, in the UK and beyond (Italy, Greece). Especially low-earning, part-time and precarious workers were compelled by necessity, and forced by their employers, to work as usual. The state took no measures to safeguard their health, and refused to protect them from employers’ arbitrariness or to alleviate the need that compelled them to work even when ill. Unprotected workers were the main victims of the pandemic and its key conductors. They saved society and were sacrificed in the process.
