In Melbourne in the same period, an additional 1 per cent of blue-collar workers in an LGA led to an increase of 895 coronavirus case numbers.Īnd if you look at that spatially across each city, that impact was clearly felt in less advantaged areas more than others. So, for example, in Sydney during the Delta wave last year and the three to four-month lockdown, a 1 per cent increase in the proportion of blue-collar workers in a local government area (LGA) led to an additional 848 cases.
What our model demonstrates is a direct cause and effect between the proportion of workers in blue-collar occupations in a local government area and case numbers. There are other kinds of inequality like gender inequality, which the report also talks about, but class inequality lay at the core of it. And in particular, we found that what underpins the experience of the pandemic has been high levels and widening levels of class inequality. What we found is that the experiences of the pandemic were highly unequal. We looked at data from state health authorities and also data from agencies like the Australian Bureau of Statistics. I think what the research found really confirms a lot of personal experiences from the pandemic that the pandemic had a greater impact on people’s lives in certain areas more so than others. Solidarity spoke to lead researcher Dr Tom Barnes from the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Australian Catholic University. COVID has hit lower-paid workers hardest, according to new research.
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