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Resource type
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Author/contributor
Title
After the Pandemic: Lasting Effects of COVID-19 on Work and Unpaid Domestic Labour
Abstract
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, this 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.This 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. --Publisher's description
Date
2026
Publisher
Routledge
# of Pages
216 pages
ISBN
978-1-040-83035-2
URL
https://www.routledge.com/After-the-Pandemic-Lasting-Effects-of-COVID-19-on-Work-and-Unpaid-Domestic-Labour/Peterson/p/book/9781003734055
Language
English
Notes

Contents:

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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. A Sociological Analysis of COVID-19 Drivers of Labour into the Future / Chris L. Peterson.
Citation
Peterson, C. L. (Ed.). (2026). After the Pandemic: Lasting Effects of COVID-19 on Work and Unpaid Domestic Labour. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/After-the-Pandemic-Lasting-Effects-of-COVID-19-on-Work-and-Unpaid-Domestic-Labour/Peterson/p/book/9781003734055
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