Overview
- Uses a wide range of methodology
- Reflects critically on specific sectors of work
- Contributes to fields of critical labour studies, political economy, and international development
Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This edited volume highlights cascading effects of the pandemic and lockdown on informal economies of varied countries in the Global South. Uneven development after colonization, imperialism, and externally influenced conflict have caused many countries in the formally colonized or semi-occupied countries in the world to lag behind in wealth accumulation, investments in manufacturing, and technology. The fact that these countries were dragged into world market dynamics on an equal footing with already developed countries exacerbated these inequalities and saw the rapid burgeoning of informal economies. COVID-19 and the lockdown of western countries unravelled global production chains, resulting in hordes of workers in the Global South losing their livelihoods. Even people engaged in traditionally locally-bound economic activities, such as domestic work and sex work, found their livelihoods disappear. 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 development are still conducive within the post-pandemic Global South as it grapples with rebuilding economies, livelihoods, institutions, and systems of governance.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sandya Hewamanne is Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK. Her research interests include globalization, identity, cultural politics, and feminist and post-colonial theory. She has extensively published on global factory workers, free trade zones, and on intersections of gender, class, and sexuality.
Smytta Yadav is Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC) Fellow in the School of Education, Environment, and Development (SEED) at the University of Manchester, UK. She completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Sussex. Her expertise is on informal economies, precarity, the state, and international development.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Political Economy of Post-COVID Life and Work in the Global South: Pandemic and Precarity
Editors: Sandya Hewamanne, Smytta Yadav
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93228-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93227-5Published: 15 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93230-5Published: 16 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-93228-2Published: 14 March 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 267
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations, International Relations Theory