COVID-19 is a global pandemic but has a particular geography to it, differentially affecting people and places. Here we explore its impact upon labour markets in the Mediterranean European Union (EU) countries. Our analysis is part of a collective work-in-progress monitoring the pandemic’s effects upon workers since early March 2020. First we note that there is a geographical political economy to pandemics. We then scrutinise the current pandemic’s spatiality and impact upon Mediterranean EU workers. Following this, we discuss how workers are responding to the pandemic and how this is remaking the geography of employment. As such, our paper represents a contribution to the ongoing development of the Labour Geography literature. Overall, we stress that workers face a variety of choices in responding to the pandemic, choices which are, of course, shaped by the geographical contexts within which workers find themselves. In deciding whether and how to act, they are playing proactive roles in shaping COVID-19’s impact upon the geography of employment and emerging labour landscapes.

COVID-19 是一种全球流行病，但它具有特定的地理位置，对人和地方的影响不同。在这里，我们探讨了它对地中海欧盟 (EU) 国家劳动力市场的影响。我们的分析是自 2020 年 3 月上旬以来监测大流行对工人影响的集体正在进行的工作的一部分。首先，我们注意到大流行存在地理政治经济学。然后，我们仔细检查当前流行病的空间性和对地中海欧盟工人的影响。在此之后，我们将讨论工人如何应对大流行以及这如何重塑就业地理。因此，我们的论文代表了对劳动地理学文献持续发展的贡献。总的来说，我们强调工人在应对大流行时面临着多种选择，当然，这些选择是 由工人所处的地理环境塑造。在决定是否采取行动以及如何采取行动时，他们在塑造 COVID-19 对就业地理和新兴劳动力格局的影响方面发挥着积极作用。