State Dysfunction in a ‘Fortunate’ Japan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. Acknowledgements XI
4. Prologue XIII
5. Introduction: Corona and Work around the Globe XVII
6. Despair and Indifference at the Margins
7. Skill, Informality, and Work in Pandemic Times: Insights from India 3
8. ‘It was Quiet’: Pandemics as Normal Life in a Romanian Town 10
9. ‘Solidarity’ in Times of Corona? Of Migrant Ghettos, Low-Wage Heroines, and Empty Public Coffers 19
10. Fear, Flight, and the Labor Question: Looking at Two Pandemics 28
11. Being ‘Relevant to the System’ is Female
12. Maids in Brazil: Domestic and Platform Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic 37
13. Coronavirus Conjunctures: Waged Work, Wagelessness, and Futures in South Africa 43
14. Lending Style to the Unseemly: COVID-19 and Mask Design in Ethiopia 52
15. Shutter Release I. Current Issues in the World, Told Visually
16. Black Ward 60
17. “Why are People Dying in Our Hands?” was a Question that was Present Everywhere – An Interview 86
18. The Health System in Which We Live
19. Nurses 95
20. Changing Care Networks in the United Kingdom 103
21. Scares and Possibilities: The COVID-19 Emergency, the Disruption of Globalization, and the Reinvention of the Welfare State 111
22. State Dysfunction in a ‘Fortunate’ Japan 120
23. Thwarted Youth
24. Learning in Lockdown: Studying and Teaching in Wales during the Coronavirus Pandemic 137
25. Youth Transitions in the Time of COVID-19 and Political Uprising 146
26. Women’s Empowerment Initiatives in the Sahel Challenged by COVID-19 155
27. Shutter Release II. Current Issues in the World, Told Visually
28. ‘This is Ridiculous,’ Voting as Labor During COVID-19: A Report from the United States 163
29. Insistence on Voting Despite the Pandemic is an Act of Resistance – An Interview 184
30. Fighting for Justice in the Pandemic
31. Police Violence and the Crisis of Work Authority in the COVID-19 Era 191
32. “We did All the Work for You”: Sex Work in Argentina in Pandemic Times 200
33. The Reserve Army of Labor in the Air: Military Support Systems for Furloughed El Al Pilots 207
34. When Private and Public Spaces Become Blurred
35. Telework between Market and Family: The COVID-19 Crisis as an Accelerator of Social Change 219
36. Work in Times of COVID-19: What is New and What is Not. A Western European Perspective 225
37. Through a Screen, Darkly: The Micro and Macro of Daily Life in the Early Pandemic Era 231
38. Contributors 239
39. Picture Credits 243
40. Index 245