PRODUZIONE POST-INDUSTRIALE. Quale costo rispetto alle identità segmentate dei lavoratori?/POST-INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION: WHAT COSTS FOR WORKERS’ SEGMENTED IDENTITIES?

Abstract

The article explores how the reconfiguration of the times and methods of professional life drives the formation of social blocks and calls for a reconsideration of the connections between work and non-work. The intermittent and discontinuous working paths which entire generations are being offered almost never match their life expectations; such that an analysis of the job market’s phenomenology over the last fifty years  leads us to a crease between a «no longer» and «not yet». As both the job market and the very biography of precarity change, this article explores the impact that labour flexibility has had on the end of factory work. In analysing the connotation of the formative and remunerative aspects of work, further, it also explores its influence on the construction of a new professional figure.

Keywords:

Production Processes, Job Market, Working-class, Flexibility, Whirlpool.