Corona and Work around the Globe
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Corona and Work around the Globe

  1. 278 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Corona and Work around the Globe

About this book

This book provides a global perspective on the transformations in the world of work caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The collection of essays will break down the general statistics and trends into glimpses of concrete experiences of workers during pandemic, of workplaces transformed or destroyed, of workers protesting against political measures, of professions particularly exposed to the coronavirus, and also of the changing nature of some professions.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9783110718249
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Social History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Prologue
  4. Introduction: Corona and Work around the Globe
  5. Despair and Indifference at the Margins
  6. Skill, Informality, and Work in Pandemic Times: Insights from India
  7. ‘It was Quiet’: Pandemics as Normal Life in a Romanian Town
  8. ‘Solidarity’ in Times of Corona? Of Migrant Ghettos, Low-Wage Heroines, and Empty Public Coffers
  9. Fear, Flight, and the Labor Question: Looking at Two Pandemics
  10. Being ‘Relevant to the System’ is Female
  11. Maids in Brazil: Domestic and Platform Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  12. Coronavirus Conjunctures: Waged Work, Wagelessness, and Futures in South Africa
  13. Lending Style to the Unseemly: COVID-19 and Mask Design in Ethiopia
  14. Shutter Release I. Current Issues in the World, Told Visually
  15. Black Ward
  16. “Why are People Dying in Our Hands?” was a Question that was Present Everywhere – An Interview
  17. The Health System in Which We Live
  18. Nurses
  19. Changing Care Networks in the United Kingdom
  20. Scares and Possibilities: The COVID-19 Emergency, the Disruption of Globalization, and the Reinvention of the Welfare State
  21. State Dysfunction in a ‘Fortunate’ Japan
  22. Thwarted Youth
  23. Learning in Lockdown: Studying and Teaching in Wales during the Coronavirus Pandemic
  24. Youth Transitions in the Time of COVID-19 and Political Uprising
  25. Women’s Empowerment Initiatives in the Sahel Challenged by COVID-19
  26. Shutter Release II. Current Issues in the World, Told Visually
  27. ‘This is Ridiculous,’ Voting as Labor During COVID-19: A Report from the United States
  28. Insistence on Voting Despite the Pandemic is an Act of Resistance – An Interview
  29. Fighting for Justice in the Pandemic
  30. Police Violence and the Crisis of Work Authority in the COVID-19 Era
  31. “We did All the Work for You”: Sex Work in Argentina in Pandemic Times
  32. The Reserve Army of Labor in the Air: Military Support Systems for Furloughed El Al Pilots
  33. When Private and Public Spaces Become Blurred
  34. Telework between Market and Family: The COVID-19 Crisis as an Accelerator of Social Change
  35. Work in Times of COVID-19: What is New and What is Not. A Western European Perspective
  36. Through a Screen, Darkly: The Micro and Macro of Daily Life in the Early Pandemic Era
  37. Contributors
  38. Picture Credits
  39. Index