Author : Sayamol Charoenratana and Cholnapa Anukul
Abstract
The purposes of this research article were 1) to know the working situations and conditions of workers in the food system during the lockdown; and 2) to study the impact in dimension of COVID- 19 inequality on urban food system workers and how to cope with it. It was a quantitative research. A questionnaire was surveyed by using a computed Cochranian non-population sample. A sample of 439 people working in the food system was obtained, only in Bangkok and its vicinity by selecting only people working in the food system in the food distribution process, retail and transportation services. Descriptive statistics were used for analysis. The results of the research revealed that 1) the characteristics of people working in the food system were considered low-income workers and at risk of poverty; and 2) the impact of the inequality dimension from COVID-19 was people working in the urban food system. They experienced with all 3 types of inequality, namely the inequality associated with life and death in life, inequality in living life with dignity and inequality of resource. Countermeasures were measures dealing with the mechanisms that caused those inequalities.
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