Covid geographies of home and work: privileged (im)mobilities?

Publication type

Journal Article

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Publication date

June 1, 2023

Summary:

For hundreds of millions of people globally, the covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally re-ordered the relationship between where one resides and where one’s paid work is done. Much ink has justifiably been spilled on the nature, drivers and consequences of these novel geographies of home and work. This analysis, drawing on the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), seeks to generate novel insights into the socially and spatially uneven experiences of work related mobilities during this crisis. The findings illustrate significant differences in the characteristics and circumstances of those who did and did not get to work from home during the peak of the pandemic. These distinct cleavages, it is argued, are emblematic of deeper entrenched inequalities.

Published in

People, Place and Policy

Volume and page numbers

Volume: 17 , p.82 -99

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2023.9554394792

ISSN

17538041

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Notes

© 2023, Author(s).

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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