Digital Labour, Pandemic COVID-19, and Emotions

Abstract

This chapter seeks to outline in a preliminary way the consequences of the pandemicin work in general and especially in digital work in its connection with emotions andthe politics of sensibilities. Based on public and private reports and the opinion ofexperts, some traces are presented here that allow us to reconstruct some changesin the politics of sensibilities that have occurred due to the socio-labour pandemicimpact. In this sense, the following argumentative strategy has been developed: 1)the theoretical perspective on the connection between digital and political workof sensibilities is outlined, 2) some of the main consequences of the pandemic atwork are synthesized, and 3) brief final openings are given to connect the describedscenario and the modifications of the politics of sensibilities.