Pandemic and Precarity - impact of Covid-19 on the Global South In a newly published book, The Political Economy of Post-COVID Life and Work in the Global South: Pandemic and Precarity , editors, Sandya Hewamanne , Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Sociology, University of Essex and Smytta Yadav , ESRC Fellow in the School of Education, Environment and Development at the University of Manchester shine a light on the impact of the pandemic on the lives of workers in the informal economies across the Global South. This edited volume highlights cascading effects of the pandemic and lockdown on workers such as women in the construction industries in India, the sex industry, domestic and hospitality workers, garment and supermarket workers. The contributors analyse how the effects of the pandemic on these low-paid, economically vulnerable people are compounded in the context of neoliberalism.