Underemployed but overworked: reframing the paradox of underemployment through the lens of racial capitalism

Based on in-person interviews with underemployed workers in the commercial cleaning sector in Zurich, Reta Barfuss and Karin Schwiter, in this new article, reframe the phenomenon of time-related underemployment through the lens of racial capitalism. This lens enables an understanding of underemployment not merely as an effect of neoliberalisation, but as a consequence of othering processes intrinsic to capitalism that render specific communities exploitable.