Full Description
Presenting a sociological perspective on globalisation and COVID-19 impacts, this book examines the lasting effects of COVID-19 on the structure of work and unpaid domestic labour.
Labour patterns have influenced political, social and economic spheres that affect organisational practices. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, this book showcases these effects upon household labour, care work, unpaid domestic work, and organisational practices, with attention to systemic inequalities by gender and age, net zero, privacy and digitisation transitions. It examines the exponential post-pandemic growth of digitisation and what this has meant in encouraging remote, home-working or hybrid work health and wellbeing. Taking a sociology of work approach with a critical eye for neoliberalism influences, the book explores the first years of the pandemic's aftermath, analysing both its short-term and potential long-term effects on paid work and unpaid domestic labour.
The book will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners in the areas of sociology, global studies, occupational health, and international relations. In particular, those engaged with the sociology of work and the sociology of family will find this a valuable resource for understanding work in the post-pandemic world.
Contents
PART I: Introduction 1. A Sociological Approach: Changes in Paid Work and Unpaid Domestic Labour During and After the Pandemic PART II: The Impact of COVID-19 on Paid Work Post-Pandemic 2. Privacy in the Post-Pandemic Workplace 3. The 'Gig Economy' and COVID-19: A Clash of Technologies 4. Digital Technology Beyond the Pandemic 5. Care Work in Post-Pandemic UK: Do We Still Care? 6. Disability Employment Systems Under Stress: COVID-19 as a Systems Shock 7. Gender and Generational Scarring: What COVID-19 Reveals and Entrenches Part III: The Effect of COVID-19 on Unpaid Domestic Work Post-Pandemic 8. Gender Inequality in Australia Before, During and After the Pandemic: Disruption and Stability in Household Labour and Time Pressure 9. COVID-19 and the Centrality of Care: Pandemic-Induced Shifts in the Gendered Organisation of Unpaid Domestic and Care Within Heterosexual Households in Scotland 10. Reinforcement of Gender Inequalities in Polish Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons for the Future Part IV: Conclusion 11. A Sociological Analysis of COVID-19 Drivers of Labour into the Future
