Problems of destandardization and precarization of labor in the context of globalization-americanization-deglobalization of the world economy in the XXI century
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Arseienko A.G. Problems of destandardization and precarization of labor in the context of globalization-americanization-deglobalization of the world economy in the XXI century. Science. Culture. Society. 2021. Vol. 27. No. 4. P. 54-65. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/nko.2021.27.4.5 (in Russ.).
Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the content, essence and social consequences of the transformation of employment in industrially developed countries after the Second World War in the context of globalization - americanization - deglobalization of the world economy. The author pays great attention to exposing the modern mythologization of the digitalization of labor and labor relations in the countries of the global North in order to cover up the true essence of various forms of non-standard work, which has become widespread in the modern world-system within the framework of digital capitalism. At the center of the study and research of the problems of destandardization and precarization of labor in the world of digital capitalism is the digitalization of the world of work and labor relations and the impact of the digital economy on the situation of workers in Western countries, especially in the United States, which has become a role model throughout the world, including the countries with "economies in transition". The author draws special attention to the fact that the introduction of non-standard employment into economic practice in the West was caused by the transition of economically developed countries to the new social structures of accumulation by means of withdrawal, that is, by reducing labor costs within the framework of the neoliberal economy. Based on the study and analysis of foreign sources, the author concludes that the COVID-19 pandemic has become a trigger to the exacerbation of the current systemic crisis of global capitalism, which puts on the agenda the need to search for and implement new, fairer and more humane forms of world order under the slogans of the social movement of alterglobalists "People are higher than profits!" and "Another world is possible!"
Keywords:
digitalization, transformation, destandardization, precarization, digital economy, digital capitalism, standard employment, precarious work, COVID-19 pandemic, modern crisis of global capitalism
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Article
Received: 15.11.2021
Accepted: 13.12.2021
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Arseienko, A. G. (2021). Problems of destandardization and precarization of labor in the context of globalization-americanization-deglobalization of the world economy in the XXI century. Science. Culture. Society, 27(4), 54-65. https://doi.org/10.19181/nko.2021.27.4.5
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