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Attitudes Toward Coronavirus Protection Measures in Enterprises (on the Example of the Ulyanovsk Region)
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Attitudes Toward Coronavirus Protection Measures in Enterprises (on the Example of the Ulyanovsk Region)
Annotation
PII
S013216250020185-6-
DOI
10.31857/S013216250020185-6
Publication type
Article
Status
Published
Authors
Yulia Andreeva 
Affiliation: Ulyanovsk State University
Address: Russian Federation
Evgenia Lukyanova
Affiliation: Ulyanovsk State University
Address: Russian Federation, Ulyanovsk
Edition
Issue 8
Pages
67-77
Abstract

The paper explores anti-COVID restrictions in Russian enterprises. It based on a series of qualitative interviews conducted with workers and experts as part of a longitudinal study in 2020-2021 in the Ulyanovsk region. We focus on three key aspects: quarantine, mask wearing, and vaccination, showing the attitudes of workers towards these measures, the degree of their acceptance or resistance to them. We conclude that restrictions were largely ineffective, but they allowed employers to increase control over staff and led to the violation of labor rights. Coercion rather than persuasion served as the primary tool for promoting anti-COVID measures. The workers did not relate the implementation of these measures to occupational safety or management’s concern about their health, but expressed a growing feeling of powerlessness. Anti-COVID restrictions are perceived to have reduced staff cohesion and to have caused the conflicts between workers and management. Informants criticized both the content of the measures and the non-systemic manner of their implementation. The paper traces how long the anti-COVID measures lasted, and what were the reasons for their cancellation.

Keywords
COVID-19, industrial enterprises, workers, anti COVID-19 measures
Acknowledgment
The reported study was funded by RFBR, project number 20-04-60221.
Received
15.05.2022
Date of publication
26.09.2022
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