The uncertain meaning of work in a global risk society / El incierto sentido del trabajo en la sociedad de riesgo global

Based on proposed objectives, this article shows the deep structural crisis in which work is involved in Postmodernity. That has meant the loose of security in the context of the weakness of the economic prosperity, the Welfare State, the State itself and the Democracy. Certainly, nowadays work appears as risky, precarious, insecure, uncertain, without a defined space, fragmented, accelerated, flexible, unregulated, informal, hit by new technologies, “brasilianizated”, hierarchical, unequal, individualized and the reason of the corroded character of the worker. Thus work gets devaluated, becomes illegible and lost its sense. Moreover, if we consider that the solutions put on the table by Occident are clearly insufficient and uncreative, it seems that we are facing the collapse or the end of an era, of the work, of the capitalism itself, and even the social-liberal-democratic State.

Abstract licence: CC BY-NC

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