Work-from-home during COVID-19: Accounting for the care economy to build back better
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چکیده
In the COVID-19 pandemic, people’s dwellings suddenly became a predominant site of economic activity. We argue that, predictably, policy-makers and employers took home for granted as background support life. Acting if is cost-less resource that free appropriation in an emergency, ignoring how functions gendered relations care labour, assuming largely harmonious site, all shaped invisibility imposition. Taking employee flexibility presenting work-from-home privilege offered by generous assumed rapid adaptation. As Australia emerges from lockdown, ‘building back better’ to meet future shocks entails better supporting adaptive capabilities workers economy, homes have likewise played unacknowledged role buffer shelter economy. Investing infrastructure capable providing more equitable basis resilience urgent reap benefits offers. This article points need rethinking public investment priorities recovery reconstruction light gender perspective on ‘lockdown’ experience. JEL Codes: E01, E22, J24
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Economic and Labour Relations Review
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1838-2673', '1035-3046']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1035304620983608