- Title
- Conclusion. Post-pandemic epilogue-the bad old contract, an even worse contract or a better social contract for informal workers?
- Creator
- Alfers, Laura C
- Creator
- Chen, Martha A
- Creator
- Plagerson, Sophie
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2022
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/478183
- Identifier
- vital:78162
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781839108068
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839108068.00017
- Description
- Since we started working on this book, the world has changed profoundly, calling further into question the fairness and adequacy of current social contracts. For informal workers, the COVID-19 crisis has had devasting economic and social impacts: it has upended livelihoods, accentuated health risks, interrupted schooling and forced many households into deeper debt. Many informal workers live in crowded informal settlements with little or no access to water and sanitation, and limited access to health care. Because informal workers depend on their daily earnings to survive, they face the risk of falling into extreme poverty as a result of government-ordered lockdowns and other economic disruptions. Women informal workers face additional challenges because of their care and domestic responsibilities. The pandemic recession intensified workers’ existing vulnerabilities as many were not able to work indefinitely without any kind of social or financial protection to fall back upon.
- Format
- 15 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- ElgarOnline
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Alfers, L., Chen, M. and Plagerson, S., 2022. Conclusion: Post-pandemic epilogue-the bad old contract, an even worse contract or a better social contract for informal workers?. In Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South (pp. 216-231). Edward Elgar Publishing
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