title: [Productive restructuring and the reallocation of work and employment: a survey of the "new" forms of social inequality].
abstract: The scope of this paper is to question the inevitability of the processes of segmentation and increased precariousness of the relations of labor and employment, which are responsible for the introduction of "new" forms of social inequality that underpin the current model of development of economies and societies. It seeks to criticize the limits of global financial and economic logic, which constitute a "new spirit of capitalism," namely a kind of reverence for the natural order of things. It is therefore necessary to conduct an analytical survey of the ongoing changes in the labor market, accompanied by epistemological vigilance which makes it possible to see neoliberal (di)visions and dominant techno-deterministic theses in context. The enunciation of scenarios on the future of work will conclude this survey and will make it possible to draw attention to both the historical and temporal constraints and to the urgent need to unveil what is ideological and political in the prevailing logic of rationalization and processes to reinstate work and employment as a "central social experience" in contemporary times.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Sociologia, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga Portugal. amarques@ics.uminho.pt
authors.forename: Ana Paula Pereira
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Marques
mesh_terms: D004526:Efficiency; D004651:Employment / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014937:Work