Political Economy of Post-COVID Life and Work in the Global South: Pandemic and Precarity

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.

• Chapter 1: Neoliberalism, Informality and Precarity.- Chapter 2: The Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic: Narratives of Informal Women Workers in Indian Punjab.- Chapter 3: When hammer misses the nail: Health aspirations and internal migration in India.- Chapter 4: Female Labour Workforce And Precarity In India’s Construction Sector.- Chapter 5: Diminishing Constructions: The Work of Exposure in Pandemic Times.- Chapter 6: Women workers at the forefront of COVID-19:  A roadmap for recovery and resilience in India.- Chapter 7: Gendering Precarity in Postcolonial Sites: Health Securitization and Sexual Labor in India’s Commercial Sex Trade Industry.- Chapter 8: Ready Made Garment (RMG) Factories Fightback During the pandemic: Evidence from Bangladesh.- Chapter 9: Demoralizing Impacts of the COVID-19 on the Bangladesh Ready Made Garment (RMG) Supply Chain.- Chapter 10: Wither Labor and Human Rights?: Precarious Work and Informal Economies in the Post-COVID-19 Global South.- Chapter 11: Supermarket workers: discovered and uncovered during Covid-19 pandemic.