Globalisation and Pandemic Management - Issues and Outcomes From Covid-19

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

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Chris L. Peterson, Chris L. (La Trobe University Peterson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032582849
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3258284-9
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Social issues & processes, Environmental medicine, Public health & preventive medicine, Sociology: work & labour, Social and ethical issues, Population & demography, Population and Demography, Medical administration & management, Public health and preventive medicine, Sociology: work and labour, Medical administration and management