1st Edition
Globalisation and Pandemic Management Issues and Outcomes from COVID-19
This book considers the global response on governance after the pandemic while sociologically addressing the effects of COVID-19 on life and work experience.
It presents the effects of COVID-19 on global and local labour markets, the development of digitisation and technology, of work health, and on the environment with respect to global warming and climate change. Linking COVID-19 to the progress of globalisation, the book considers the spread of the pandemic and its management as a response to neoliberalism.
The book analyses national and international governance models for tackling future outcomes of emerging global issues such as technology, green industry and environment that may inform future management of global crises. As such, it will be of interest to scholars in the field of Global Studies, Governance, International Relations, Political Science, Complexity Studies, Environment Studies, Sociology, Disaster Management and Occupational Health.
Part I Introduction
1. Society and its institutions prior to COVID-19
2. Globalisation and sociological contributions: The impact of COVID-19
3. Neoliberalism in a new order
Part II Specific effects of COVID-19
4. COVID 19 and globalisation: The reconstitution of the global world
5. The impact of COVID-19 on national and global health and safety at work (OHS)
6. Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on work, technology and social relations
7. The growth of digitisation, metrics and automation
8. Implications for the world of the management of COVID-19
Part III Changing impact on globalisation due to COVID-19
9. COVID-19 and climate change
10. Growth of the green industry, labour and the labour process
11. Changes in local, national and global labour markets
12. Gender, COVID-19 and changing globalisation
13. Labour process and socio-political contexts: A view to the future
Biography
Chris L. Peterson, PhD, has an Adjunct appointment in the Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia. He specialises in work-related stress, chronic disease and epilepsy and has published extensively in these areas, including several books. He has also recently published the book Identifying and Managing Risk at Work: Emerging Issues in the Context of Globalisation. He primarily undertakes quantitative research, but also engages with qualitative research. He is a co-investigator on a six-wave longitudinal study of the social aspects of epilepsy and has been chief investigator or co-investigator on a number of large grants.
"How did globalization shape the COVID-19 pandemic? How has the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped globalisation? In addressing these questions Chris Peterson presents a comprehensive analysis of the dramatic global social and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. He surveys in thirteen engaging and accessible chapters how COVID has impacted on the world of work, patterns of inequality, gender relations, technological change, the global political economy and not least climate change. Arguing that the pandemic era is not yet over he offers valuable prescriptions regarding future pandemic management whilst also reflecting upon the significant lessons to be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic for the design of effective global and national responses to the multiple threats and challenges - from the climate emergency to AI - confronting humanity. A terrific contribution to making sense of our era of polycrisis or permacrisis."
Emeritus Professor Tony McGrew, Strathclyde University UK
"Many books on COVID have been written, wondering how, why, and now what. Peterson’s welcome and readable retrospect takes a much-needed deep sociological dive."
Emeritus Professor Ronald Labonté, University of Ottawa, Canada
