Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Around the world, the pandemic overturned our ways of working. For many workers the pandemic caused losses of work, increased unemployment, informality, reduced incomes, business closures. Around the world all but essential workers stayed at home. But what exactly is “essential work”? Employers and authorities were slow to ensure adequately safe working conditions for many of them.
Transcript link - https://www.open.edu/openlearn/pluginfile.php/3460902/tool_ocwmanage/article/1/Transcript%20-%20essential%20for%20what%20trailer.pdf
Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/economics/essential-what-a-global-social-reproduction-view-on-the-re-organisation-work-during-the-covid-19-pandemic
Playlist link – youtube.com/watch?v=LwG9SNeCof8&list=PLhQpDGfX5e7DFOVV1A0v__eD5URbMtswQ&ab_channel=OpenLearnfromTheOpenUniversity
Study free course on Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view at the Open University
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/economics-and-the-2008-crisis-keynesian-view/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab
Study R30 BA (Honours) Economics
open.ac.uk/courses/economics/degrees/ba-economics-r30
The Open University is the world’s leading provider of flexible, high-quality online degrees and distance learning, serving students across the globe with highly respected degree qualifications, and the triple-accredited MBA. The OU teaches through its own unique method of distance learning, called ‘supported open learning’ and you do not need any formal qualifications to study with us, just commitment and a desire to find out what you are capable of.
Free learning from The Open University
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/
For more like this subscribe to the Open University channel
youtube.com/channel/UCXsH4hSV_kEdAOsupMMm4Qw
Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/ouopenlearn
Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/OUFreeLearning
#theOpenUniversity #GlobalEconomy
Around the world, the pandemic overturned our ways of working. For many workers the pandemic caused losses of work, increased unemployment, informality, reduced incomes, business closures. Around the world all but essential workers stayed at home. But what exactly is “essential work”? Employers and authorities were slow to ensure adequately safe working conditions for many of them.
Transcript link - https://www.open.edu/openlearn/pluginfile.php/3460902/tool_ocwmanage/article/1/Transcript%20-%20essential%20for%20what%20trailer.pdf
Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/economics/essential-what-a-global-social-reproduction-view-on-the-re-organisation-work-during-the-covid-19-pandemic
Playlist link – youtube.com/watch?v=LwG9SNeCof8&list=PLhQpDGfX5e7DFOVV1A0v__eD5URbMtswQ&ab_channel=OpenLearnfromTheOpenUniversity
Study free course on Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view at the Open University
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/economics-and-the-2008-crisis-keynesian-view/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab
Study R30 BA (Honours) Economics
open.ac.uk/courses/economics/degrees/ba-economics-r30
The Open University is the world’s leading provider of flexible, high-quality online degrees and distance learning, serving students across the globe with highly respected degree qualifications, and the triple-accredited MBA. The OU teaches through its own unique method of distance learning, called ‘supported open learning’ and you do not need any formal qualifications to study with us, just commitment and a desire to find out what you are capable of.
Free learning from The Open University
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/
For more like this subscribe to the Open University channel
youtube.com/channel/UCXsH4hSV_kEdAOsupMMm4Qw
Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/ouopenlearn
Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/OUFreeLearning
#theOpenUniversity #GlobalEconomy
