Corona and Work around the Globe / / ed. by Andreas Eckert, Felicitas Hentschke.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Work in Global and Historical Perspective ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Introduction: Corona and Work around the Globe
- Despair and Indifference at the Margins
- Skill, Informality, and Work in Pandemic Times: Insights from India
- ‘It was Quiet’: Pandemics as Normal Life in a Romanian Town
- ‘Solidarity’ in Times of Corona? Of Migrant Ghettos, Low-Wage Heroines, and Empty Public Coffers
- Fear, Flight, and the Labor Question: Looking at Two Pandemics
- Being ‘Relevant to the System’ is Female
- Maids in Brazil: Domestic and Platform Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Coronavirus Conjunctures: Waged Work, Wagelessness, and Futures in South Africa
- Lending Style to the Unseemly: COVID-19 and Mask Design in Ethiopia
- Shutter Release I. Current Issues in the World, Told Visually
- Black Ward
- “Why are People Dying in Our Hands?” was a Question that was Present Everywhere – An Interview
- The Health System in Which We Live
- Nurses
- Changing Care Networks in the United Kingdom
- Scares and Possibilities: The COVID-19 Emergency, the Disruption of Globalization, and the Reinvention of the Welfare State
- State Dysfunction in a ‘Fortunate’ Japan
- Thwarted Youth
- Learning in Lockdown: Studying and Teaching in Wales during the Coronavirus Pandemic
- Youth Transitions in the Time of COVID-19 and Political Uprising
- Women’s Empowerment Initiatives in the Sahel Challenged by COVID-19
- Shutter Release II. Current Issues in the World, Told Visually
- ‘This is Ridiculous,’ Voting as Labor During COVID-19: A Report from the United States
- Insistence on Voting Despite the Pandemic is an Act of Resistance – An Interview
- Fighting for Justice in the Pandemic
- Police Violence and the Crisis of Work Authority in the COVID-19 Era
- “We did All the Work for You”: Sex Work in Argentina in Pandemic Times
- The Reserve Army of Labor in the Air: Military Support Systems for Furloughed El Al Pilots
- When Private and Public Spaces Become Blurred
- Telework between Market and Family: The COVID-19 Crisis as an Accelerator of Social Change
- Work in Times of COVID-19: What is New and What is Not. A Western European Perspective
- Through a Screen, Darkly: The Micro and Macro of Daily Life in the Early Pandemic Era
- Contributors
- Picture Credits
- Index