A5002587033- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Technostress in Professional Settings
- Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Emotional Labor in Professions
- Educational Innovations and Challenges
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Educational Leadership and Innovation
- Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
University of Greenwich
2020-2023
Wenzhou Medical University
2020
This article presents a UK supermarket worker’s experiences of work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Writing period uncertainty, Jay’s narrative reveals how sudden and constant transitions between mundanity extremity on shop floor evoke conflicting emotions intensification that disrupt reconstruct normality. His accounts describe violent customer behaviours, absent management, lack clear organisational policies, different views appropriate health safety measures among colleagues. It illustrates...
The number of patients with pneumonia stemming from the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection has increased rapidly. However, clinical characteristics discharged remain little known. Here, we attempt to describe and treatment experiences cases Taizhou, China.A total 60 COVID-19-infected who were Taizhou Enze Medical Center (Group), January 31, 2020, February 16, included in analysis. discharge criteria based on New Coronavirus Pneumonia Prevention Control Program (Fifth Edition,...
Abstract This article highlights the weakness of UK's occupational health and safety infrastructure exposed by COVID‐19 pandemic. Utilising a political economy perspective, it captures critical role workplace union representatives in mitigating risk contesting expropriation recommodification labour, specifically inadequate sick pay.
The normally low-risk and routinised nature of supermarket frontline work evolved drastically amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a refined conceptual framework extreme work, this article examines how public health crisis coupled with maxinisation organisational flexibility gives rise to extremity in mundane settings. findings based 50 interviews workers managers who worked throughout pandemic UK offer empirical insights into macro-micro dynamics extreme-mundane work. These reveal nuanced...
The paper explores the role of UK union health and safety representatives changes to representative structures governing workplace organisational Occupational Health Safety (OHS) during COVID-19. It draws upon a survey 648 Trade Union Congress (TUC) (H&S) representatives, as well case studies 12 organisations in eight key sectors. indicates expanded H&S representation, but only half respondents reported committees their organisations. Where formal mechanisms existed, they provided...