The Political Economy of Post-COVID Life and Work in the Global South: Pandemic and Precarity

This volume brings together case studies from India, Brazil, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka to analyze global economic disruptions as they affected informal sector workers who were already largely invisible within state development policies. The chapters question whether existing models of neoliberal dev...

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Other Authors: Hewamanne, Sandya (Editor), Yadav, Smytta (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:International Political Economy Series
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Neoliberalism, Informality and Precarity
  • Chapter 2: The Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic: Narratives of Informal Women Workers in Indian Punjab
  • Chapter 3: When hammer misses the nail: Health aspirations and internal migration in India
  • Chapter 4: Female Labour Workforce And Precarity In India’s Construction Sector
  • Chapter 5: Diminishing Constructions: The Work of Exposure in Pandemic Times
  • Chapter 6: Women workers at the forefront of COVID-19: A roadmap for recovery and resilience in India
  • Chapter 7: Gendering Precarity in Postcolonial Sites: Health Securitization and Sexual Labor in India’s Commercial Sex Trade Industry
  • Chapter 8: Ready Made Garment (RMG) Factories Fightback During the pandemic: Evidence from Bangladesh
  • Chapter 9: Demoralizing Impacts of the COVID-19 on the Bangladesh Ready Made Garment (RMG) Supply Chain
  • Chapter 10: Wither Labor and Human Rights?: Precarious Work and Informal Economies in the Post-COVID-19 Global South
  • Chapter 11: Supermarket workers: discovered and uncovered during Covid-19 pandemic