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Corona and work around the globe

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Statement of Responsibility: edited by Andreas Eckert and Felicitas Hentschke
Year: [2021]
Publisher: Berlin ; Boston [Massachusetts], De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Media group: Book/Buch
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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

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Statement of Responsibility: edited by Andreas Eckert and Felicitas Hentschke
Year: [2021]
Publisher: Berlin ; Boston [Massachusetts], De Gruyter Oldenbourg
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Classification: Search for this systematic 2.11.7
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ISBN: 978-3-11-071689-4
ISBN (2nd): 978-3-11-071828-7
Description: XXI, 255 Seiten, Illustrationen
Tags: World of Work, Coronavirus, Working Conditions, Comparison, Globalization, World, Pandemic, Arbeitswelt, Working life, Corona, Covid, COVID-19, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Arbeitsbedingungen, Internationaler Vergleich, Vergleich, Globalisierung, Welt, Pandemie, Epidemie, Epidemic
Participating parties: Search for this character Eckert, Andreas, 1964- (editor); Hentschke, Felicitas, 1967- (editor)
Language: eng
Media group: Book/Buch