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SUMMARY:Labour in the Time of Corona: Commoning, caring, and coercion during the Covid-19 pandemic
LOCATION:Room 0.30
DESCRIPTION:The world of work in Southeast Asia is being profoundly affecte
 d by the global coronavirus pandemic. High levels of integration into globa
 l supply chains render the regional economy historically susceptible to glo
 bal economic shocks. During the Covid-19 pandemic, however, lockdowns, trav
 el restrictions, and other measures designed to contain the spread of the v
 irus have seen the economic impacts of the pandemic spill over employment s
 ectors across factory floors, to tourism and service work, and self-employe
 d vendors and trades. The impacts of Covid-19 on employment across the form
 al and informal economy have been widely documented. The role and responses
  of workers and their trade unions in managing, mitigating, and manipulatin
 g this disruption, however, are less well understood (Ford and Ward 2021). 
 In this panel, therefore, we invite a recentring of “labour agency” (Herod 
 2008) to explore how workers and their unions have played a proactive role 
 in shaping Covid-19’s economic and employment impacts. \n\nAcross the regio
 n, trade unions and labour groups have undoubtedly played a “pivotal role” 
 (ILO 2020) in leading response to the Covid-19 crisis for workers, from par
 ticipating in social dialogue with governments, to distributing mutual aid 
 to supplement typically “lagging” (UN 2020) investment in social protection
  programming. Yet Southeast Asia is already renowned for its limited labour
  rights and shrinking of democratic space under renewed authoritarianism (M
 orgenbesser 2020). Within these existing constraints, reports of recalcitra
 nt governments and employers exploiting the pandemic to intensify harassmen
 t and discrimination against labour groups and their leaders through emerge
 ncy legislation and  illegal dismissals have also been widspread (Patel 202
 0). In this panel, therefore, we seek to identify and explore the uneven co
 ntexts and constraints that workers and their unions have navigated in atte
 mpting to provide support and relief to Southeast Asia’s diverse workforces
  during the Covid-19 pandemic.
URL:https://euroseas2022.org/panels/labour-in-the-time-of-corona-commoning-caring-and-coercion-during-the-covid-19-pandemic
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