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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
A Changing World: Challenges Related to Flexible or Precarious Work
Authors : Seiji Uchida, Laerte Idal Sznelwar
Published in: Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021)
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
One of the first challenges we face in this article is to define “precarious”. There is a lot of talk about job insecurity, as if it were a recent process, and therefore it is something relatively new in labor relations and production strategies in the capitalist world. We do not agree with this, even if it is not the intention of the authors, to place this process in contemporary times; it is something very old and, perhaps, something that has always existed when people had to work dominated by others. On the other hand, the advent of neoliberalism exacerbated these processes; even more when financial issues more and more govern production systems. So there is a lot to worry about when dealing with the issue of precariousness, since, as they become more accelerated and intense, these processes have an immense repercussion on the health of workers and also on social relations, also constituting a risk greater breakdown among the society.