FUTURO(S) DO TRABALHO

Gazi Islam

doi:10.1590/s0034-759020200506

Abstract

[ ]the future of work today is deeply uncertain, and this uncertainty must be acknowledged without letting it paralyze the sociological imagination or depoliticize social action While the front line often receives attention and applause when it consists of medical workers (and without necessarily translating into material benefits for those workers), precarious workers in transport and delivery, food and agricultural production, and other manual-labor sectors constitute an invisible front line In many cases, such as industrial food production, these workers exist within spaces that are at risk for infection and many pay with their lives (Waltenberg, Victoroff, Rose et al , 2020) [ ]in economies with large informal sectors, small-business retailers and other informal jobs have continued in the face of crisis, with the workers therein assuming similar risks [ ]as unemployment figures soar to unprecedented levels in much of the world (Blustein et al , 2020;Coibion, Gorodnichenko, & Weber, 2020), the boundary between work and life becomes a wall separating bare life from the possibility of materially earning a living

Highlights

While the shocks of financial crises and pandemics will likely give rise to new forms of control and economic hardship, they may open spaces for deep change in “business as usual.”. It goes without saying, not based on empirical analysis—and even if they were, these would be difficult to justify in the midst of uncertain times, when believing the future will resemble the past is no more than an article of faith
From where do they come? My response is that to think about the future of work in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic requires the sobering sense of a hard and overgrown road ahead—a road that is not a dead end, but rather one that is under construction
Leadership, management and command in the time of the Coronavirus

Summary

Introduction

The hopeful voices of digital democracy that were so vocal during the so-called Arab Spring (Boros & Glass, 2014) were soon supplanted by horror at its consequences, the proverbial jury may still be out on the democratic potentials of social media platforms, if decoupled from their corporate hosts (Scholz & Schneider, 2016). While the shocks of financial crises and pandemics will likely give rise to new forms of control and economic hardship, they may open spaces for deep change in “business as usual.” It goes without saying, not based on empirical analysis—and even if they were, these would be difficult to justify in the midst of uncertain times, when believing the future will resemble the past is no more than an article of faith.

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