Globalisation and Pandemic Management

This book considers the global response on governance after the pandemic while sociologically addressing the effects of COVID-19 in life and work experience.

Chris L. Peterson, PhD, has an Adjunct appointment in the Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia. He specialises in work-related stress, chronic disease and epilepsy and has published extensively in these areas, including several books. He has also recently published the book Identifying and Managing Risk at Work: Emerging Issues in the Context of Globalisation. He primarily undertakes quantitative research, but also engages with qualitative research. He is a co-investigator on a six-wave longitudinal study of the social aspects of epilepsy and has been chief investigator or co-investigator on a number of large grants.

I Introduction 1. Society and its institutions prior to COVID-19 2. Globalisation and sociological contributions: The impact of COVID-19 3. Neoliberalism in a new order II Specific effects of COVID-19 4. COVID 19 and Globalisation: The reconstitution of the global world 5. The impact of COVID-19 on national and global health and safety at work (OHS) 6. Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on work, technology and social relations 7. The growth of digitisation, metrics and automation 8. Implications for the world of the management of COVID-19 III Changing impact on Globalisation due to COVID-19 9. COVID-19 and Climate Change 10. Growth of the green industry, labour and the labour process 11. Changes in local, national, and global labour markets 12. Gender, COVID-19 and changing Globalisation 13. Labour process and socio-political contexts: A view to the future