Article(electronic)May 27, 2022

Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic and unpaid care work on informal workers' livelihoods

In: International labour review, Volume 161, Issue 2, p. 171-194

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Abstract

AbstractThe COVID‐19 pandemic triggered a health, economic and care crisis affecting all workers, including those in the informal economy. This article uses data from the first round of a mixed‐methods longitudinal study conducted in June/July 2020 by Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing in partnership with informal workers' organizations in 12 cities. It assesses the impacts of the multidimensional crisis on care responsibilities and the resulting effects on livelihoods and food security. A gendered analysis of paid work and unpaid care work sheds light on the unique features of the impacts of the current "pandemic recession" on the world's informal labour force.

Languages

English

Publisher

Open Library of the Humanities

ISSN: 1564-913X

DOI

10.1111/ilr.12332

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