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After the Pandemic: Lasting Effects of COVID-19 on Work and Unpaid Domestic Labour book cover

1st Edition

After the Pandemic Lasting Effects of COVID-19 on Work and Unpaid Domestic Labour

Edited By Chris L. Peterson Copyright 2027
206 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

PART I: Introduction

1. A Sociological Approach: Changes in Paid Work and Unpaid Domestic Labour During and After the Pandemic

Chris L. Peterson

 

PART II: The Impact of COVID-19 on Paid Work Post-Pandemic

2. Privacy in the Post-Pandemic Workplace

Peter Holland and Jacqueline Meredith

 

3. The ‘Gig Economy’ and COVID-19: A Clash of Technologies

Christine Walker

 

4. Digital Technology Beyond the Pandemic

Chris L. Peterson

 

5. Care Work in Post-Pandemic UK: Do We Still Care?

Louisa Acciari and Sabah Boufkhed

 

6. Disability Employment Systems Under Stress: COVID-19 as a Systems Shock

Peter Smith

 

7. Gender and Generational Scarring: What COVID-19 Reveals and Entrenches

Susan McDaniel

 

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

Rennie Lee, Janeen Baxter, Alysha Gray and Alice Campbell

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

Nina Teasdale, Katy Gillespie and Sara Cantillon

 

10. Reinforcement of Gender Inequalities in Polish Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons for the Future

Katarzyna Suwada and Arkadiusz Karwacki

 

Part IV: Conclusion

11. A Sociological Analysis of COVID-19 Drivers of Labour into the Future

Chris L. Peterson

Biography

Chris L. Peterson has an Adjunct appointment in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University in Australia. He is a sociologist who has gained a number of grants in social and medical research including from the National Health and Medical Research Council.  He also conducts research using a longitudinal study on the social aspects of epilepsy. He has published several books, including Identifying and Managing Risk at Work: Emerging Issues in the Context of Globalisation.

“As this illuminating and original edited collection exemplifies, some of the more enduring consequences of the covid-19 pandemic have been experienced in the realms of -paid and unpaid-work. Adopting a ‘global sociological perspective’ the chapters explore, through original research, the differential and contradictory impacts of the pandemic: from accelerating the remaking of work in the digital/gig economy to the renegotiation of gendered household unpaid labour. Taken together they provide rich and instructive insights into the significant transformations in work associated with the disruptive consequences of the Covid -19 pandemic. An essential contribution to understanding and explaining how the pandemic’s legacy  continues to reshape work and the division of labour, from the global to the domestic, with profound social, economic and political implications.”

- Emeritus Professor Tony McGrew, Strathclyde University UK

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