‘You Can’t Eat Soap’: Reimagining COVID-19, Work, Family and Employment from the Global South

Author:

Jaga Ameeta1ORCID,Ollier-Malaterre Ariane2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. University of Cape Town, South Africa

2. Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Abstract

This article problematises the assumptions regarding work, family and employment that underlie the World Health Organization (WHO)’s COVID-19 guidelines. The scientific evidence grounding sanitary and social distancing recommendations is embedded in conceptualisations of work as skilled jobs in the formal economy and of family as urban and nuclear. These are Global North rather than universal paradigms. We build on theories from the South and an intersectional analysis of gender and class inequalities to highlight contextual complexities currently neglected in responses to COVID-19. We argue that building on both science and local knowledge can help democratise workable solutions for a range of different work, family and employment realities in the Global South. Finally, we propose a research agenda calling for strengthened North–South dialogue to provincialise knowledge, account for differences in histories, locality and resource-availability, and foster greater local participation in policy formulation regarding sanitary measures and vaccination campaigns.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management,Economics and Econometrics,Sociology and Political Science,Accounting

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