Essential workers, caring, space and COVID-19 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic during the first few months of 2020 different countries and cities of the world saw their commercial, industrial and tourist activity slow down. In Argentina, on March 20th 2020, the national decree 297/2020 established a Mandatory Preventive Social Isolatio...
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description | As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic during the first few months of 2020 different countries and cities of the world saw their commercial, industrial and tourist activity slow down. In Argentina, on March 20th 2020, the national decree 297/2020 established a Mandatory Preventive Social Isolation, in order to reduce the spread of the virus and avoid the collapse of the health care system:
“[citizens] must refrain from attending their workplaces and may not travel on routes, roads and public spaces, all with the aim of preventing the circulation and spread of the COVID-19 virus and the consequent effect on public health and other derived subjective rights, such as the life and physical integrity of persons”.
The framework of this isolation decree stipulated who would be authorized to continue working, even in the face of the risk of contracting COVID: those who could continue with their employment activities in a new normality with a special work permit. In this way, the mandatory isolation and the new work permit created a new social subject, the essential worker, and at the same time exposed class-based inequalities that are inscribed in the urban landscape. |
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title | Essential workers, caring, space and COVID-19 in Buenos Aires, Argentina |
title_full | Essential workers, caring, space and COVID-19 in Buenos Aires, Argentina |
title_fullStr | Essential workers, caring, space and COVID-19 in Buenos Aires, Argentina |
title_full_unstemmed | Essential workers, caring, space and COVID-19 in Buenos Aires, Argentina |
title_short | Essential workers, caring, space and COVID-19 in Buenos Aires, Argentina |
title_sort | essential workers caring space and covid 19 in buenos aires argentina |
topic | essential workers mobility of care informal jobs covid-19 corona buenos aires argentina |
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