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AUTOR(ES) Meina Cai , Scott Tindal , Safak Tartanoglu Bennett , Jay Velu
AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) University of Greenwich, UK
ANO 2021
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO Work, Employment and Society
ISSN 0950-0170
E-ISSN 1469-8722
EDITORA SAGE Publications
DOI 10.1177/0950017020966527
CITAÇÕES 2
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-18

Resumo

This article presents a UK supermarket worker's experiences of work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Writing during a period of uncertainty, Jay's narrative reveals how the sudden and constant transitions between mundanity and extremity on the shop floor evoke conflicting emotions and work intensification that disrupt and reconstruct normality. His accounts describe violent customer behaviours, absent management, a lack of clear organisational policies, and the different views of appropriate health and safety measures among colleagues. It illustrates how liminality in the workplace at a time of crisis can endanger employees whose seemingly mundane jobs become extreme.

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