SOCIAL AND LABOR REALITY – XXI: PHILOSOPHY OF FORMATION, OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

Abstract

The argument for the relevance of the topic of the article is the lack of systematic, interdisciplinary research on modern transformations of the complex world of work and employment, which form a new social and labor reality. The quintessence of the article is a scientific explanation of the philosophy of formation of social and labor reality – XXI, the core of which is the institute Labor4.0 in response to the challenges of the technological structure of “Industry 4.0”. New aspects of work and employment of the first decades of the XXI century are studied, the increase of knowledge in this field is covered by clarifying the essence of the changes caused by the coronaviruscrisis and their consequences for the social and labor platform Labor 4.0. The determinants of the formation of social and labor reality – XXI are identified and substantiated. The necessity of rethinking the prospects of social and labor development in the context of demographic changes is proved, the gains and losses for the “end of labor” in its classical sense are argued, the changes in the social and labor sphere with the formation of a new phenomenon, the post-global economy, are distinguished. The semantic components of the Labor 4.0 model are revealed. Emphasis is placed on the need to implement mixed (non-standard) labor regulations in the context of restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, which will strengthen socio-economic security at all levels and harmonize relations between all labor market actors. The relationship and interdependence of the two institutions formed during the coronavirus crisis are studied. The priority directions of further development of labor science are outlined. The study focuses on understanding the philosophy of social and labor progress and the formation of modern in the social and labor “field”: Labor 4.0 and the economy of non-standard employment (gig-economy). The necessity of changing the theoretical, philosophical understanding of demoeconomic, technical-technological, epidemiological and social and labor reality is substantiated. The urgency of changing the vectors of socio-economic policy with the advent of worldview, economic and social culture of the new, digital, post-industrial era is proved. The presented scientific argumentation of the philosophy of modern transformations of the social and labor sphere will serve as a scientific basis for further development of the “road map” of its development on the basis of human-centeredness.