COVID-19, Health and Vulnerable Societies

Quinlan, Michael

doi:10.1093/annweh/wxaa127

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“…For example, COVID-19 has amplified pre-existing QWL problems and deficiencies experienced, for example, by ethnic minorities, young workers, marginalized workers in precarious employment as well as those in frontline jobs (in hospitality and aged care, for example), facing intensified risks to their health, and safety, security and well-being (e.g. Baum and Hai, 2020; Quinlan, 2021). Those workers able to work from home faced lower health risks but new social and technical challenges, including increased social isolation and digital surveillance, problems with technological integration and overload, and greater ‘spillover’ impeding work-life balance (Wang et al, 2021).…”

Section: Full Circle: Renewing Socio-technical Systems and Revising Q...mentioning

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Humanizing work in the digital age: Lessons from socio-technical systems and quality of working life initiatives

2022

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New and residual challenges related to digital technology, COVID-19, precarious employment and scientific management are a reminder of research published in the early years of Human Relations that laid the foundation for socio-technical systems theory and its later conceptual offspring, the quality of working life. Analysing the evolution, challenges, legacy and lessons of socio-technical systems and quality of working life, we develop guiding principles for the theoretical development and practical implementation of socio-technical systems and quality of working life for the 21st century. These principles are needed to optimize the benefits of new technology and improve job quality. They would enable an effective and sustained humanization of work through stakeholder involvement, inter-disciplinary partnerships and institutional support, producing positive outcomes for employees and employers as well as wider society.

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Section: Full Circle: Renewing Socio-technical Systems and Revising Q...mentioning

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Humanizing work in the digital age: Lessons from socio-technical systems and quality of working life initiatives

2022

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“…The emergence of participants' ‘extra work’ was in how they attempted to manage and tolerate a process of multiple breakdowns in obtaining common goods of health (i.e., dependency on their social networks to obtain resources, financial and social strains, and limitations of shared spaces in their homes and communities) and precarious work brought forth to survive COVID‐19 (e.g., domestic work paid or unpaid). Altogether, by the end of the first wave of COVID‐19, in Canada like in Eastern Europe and Australia, these factors culminated in immigrants experiencing reduced self‐efficacy, weakened social integration, lowered social capital, and disproportionately magnified their health problems (Macmillan & Shanahan, 2021; Quinlan, 2021).…”

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Health citizenship reveals ‘extra’ work managing biopolitical risk for immigrants in Canada during COVID‐19: A qualitative study

Leung,

Guruge,

Wang

et al. 2024

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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One's health security (i.e., the ability to minimize risks and respond to public health threats) is a conferred right of citizenship but individuals construct identities during the process of securing their health. However, how this occurs, in relationship to the state, remains largely implicit or taken‐for‐granted. The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID‐19)' provided a unique opportunity to explore the relationship between oneself and governing social norms of health citizenship. We drew on secondary analysis of data from a previous (published) qualitative descriptive study that was conducted during May to September 2020 of COVID‐19, to explore 72 immigrants' experience (from 21 countries) of health security in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada. Data were collected through semi‐structured interviews and analysed using critical realism. The majority of participants were women. We demonstrate how individuals implicitly engaged in ‘extra’ work—gendered and driven by mechanisms of good citizenship—connected to the will to health, against ethopolitical work to regulate risks, of and for themselves, in public discourse. Public discourse tended to follow racialized hegemonic norms, which also reproduced systemic cultural racism. We argue that empathetic understanding of this process is conducive to enhancing one's resistance to stereotypes, and to bolstering immigrants' resilience to seeking health security during public health emergencies.

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“…Close interconnections between poor public health and precarious work arrangements, including the spread of infectious disease, well known via government inquiries and research since the late nineteenth century, were “rediscovered”. 9 Precarious employment was especially prevalent in sectors like food production, warehousing/logistics, retailing, aged care facilities, and transport/delivery, which had to operate even during lockdowns. These workers were often low-paid and lived in crowded households, exacerbating the risk of disease spreading, especially given an absence of sick leave—which discouraged reporting symptoms.…”

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The Struggle to Regulate Precarious Work Arrangements to Minimize Their Adverse Effects on Health and Safety in Australia

Underhill,

Quinlan

2024

International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Heal

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As in other countries, the growth of precarious work arrangements in Australia from the late 1970s has had significant adverse effects on occupational health and safety (OHS). While there is now a large body of global research on this issue and its connection to the rise of neoliberalism, there has been less investigation of efforts to address these problems. This article reviews regulatory interventions in Australia over the past two decades. It particularly focuses on industrial relations regulation, which can play a critical role in addressing at least some of the underlying reasons why precarious work undermines OHS. The most significant of these changes were passed by the Australian Parliament in February 2024, including a highly controversial but world-leading creation of minimum standards for platform workers.

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COVID-19, Health and Vulnerable Societies

Cited by 11 publications

References 20 publications

Humanizing work in the digital age: Lessons from socio-technical systems and quality of working life initiatives

Humanizing work in the digital age: Lessons from socio-technical systems and quality of working life initiatives

Health citizenship reveals ‘extra’ work managing biopolitical risk for immigrants in Canada during COVID‐19: A qualitative study

The Struggle to Regulate Precarious Work Arrangements to Minimize Their Adverse Effects on Health and Safety in Australia

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