Labour centrism as a lifestyle: limits of the labour's possibilities of people
T. SIDORINA
Doctor of PHILOSOPHY (DSc), Professor, Faculty of Humanities, School of Philosophy, Tenured Professor of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Doctor of PHILOSOPHY (DSc), Professor, Faculty of Humanities, School of Philosophy, Tenured Professor of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
N. ISHCHENKO
Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, School of Philosophy, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, School of Philosophy, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
TERRA ECONOMICUS, 2015, Vol. 13 (no. 3),
During the history the attitude to labor has evolved: the labor has gone through the periods of contempt, worship, adoration and alienation. Where the working humankind has come at the turn of XX–XXI centuries? On the one hand, there is «the labour crisis in its classical understanding», from the other – the labourcentrism and workaholism as its consequence. Working every day, without any limits and stoppages, the beloved work, but exhausting in the pursuit of the career, enrichment, success – all this makes the situation in the labour sphere more dangerous physically and psychologically. Workaholism today is believed to be not only the negative consequence in the labour relations, but a disease. The labour stops being hard, but remains being stressful and tense enough, leads to tiredness in case of overtime work. Despite the predictions that technological development will lead to an increase of free time, the society becomes more labourcentric. Humankind suffers from the lack of free time and in the same time cannot properly use it. Inconsistency of the current situation in the field of labour shows itself in social dependency enhanced by the results of the welfare and paternalism politics. In conditions of the postindustrial labor transformation the social dependence is replaced by the danger of inactivity, with which investigators contrast labourcentrism and workaholism. What defines the contemporary attitude to labour? Why the ambivalent perception of labouris being formed, one of the pole of which is idleness and evasion of work, and other is workaholism and chronic overwork?
Keywords: labour; society; overwork culture;lifestyle; dependence
References:
- Bell D. (1999). Grjadushhee postindustrial’noe obshhestvo (The Coming of the PostIndustrial Society). Moscow: Academia. (In Russian.)
- Corsani A. (2008). Total’noe proniknovenie. Kapitalizm, biotehnonaukai neoliberalism. Politicheskij zhurnal, no. 2 (http://www.politjournal.ru/index.php?action=Articles&dirid=67&tek=7919&issue=213). (In Russian.)
- Evseeva E. (2010). Trudogoliki riskuyut hizn’yu. Trud, no. 120, July 6 (http://www.trud.ru/article/06-07-2010/245797_trudogoliki_riskujut_zhiznju.html) (In Russian.)
- Fukuyama F. (2010). Konec istorii ili poslednij chelovek [The End of History and the Last Man]. Moscow: AST Publ. (In Russian.)
- Gorz A. (2007). Znanie, stoimost’ ikapital. K kritike ehkonomiki znanij (Knowing the cost and capital. Critique of Knowledge Economy). Logos, no. 4. (In Russian.)
- Gorz A. (2010). Nematerial’noe. Znanie, stoimost’ ikapital (Intangible. Knowledge, value and capital). Moscow: HSE Publishing House. (In Russian.)
- Inozemcev V.L. (1998). Za predelami ehkonomicheskogo obshhestva. Moscow: Akademia-Nauka. (In Russian.)
- Jünger F. (2002). Sovershenstvo tehniki. Mashina i sobstvennost’. [Perfektion der Technik]. Saint Petersburg: Vladimir Dal’Publ. (In Russian.)
- King A. and Schneider B. (1991). Pervaja global’naja revoljucija. (The First Global Revolution) Moscow: Progress-Pangeja. (In Russian.)
- Konorov F. (2009). Trudogolizm. Fedor Konorov, December 18 (http://fedorkonorov.ru/2009/12/18/trudogolizm/). (In Russian.)
- Majackij M. (2009). Kurort Evropa: esse. Moscow: Ad Marginem Press. (In Russian.)
- Paulre B. (2008). Kognitivnyj kapitalizm na marshe. Politicheskij zhurnal, no. 2 (http://www.politjournal.ru/index.php?action=Articles&dirid=67&tek=7917&issue=213). (In Russian.)
- Reich R. (1999). Trudnacij. Gotovjas’ k kapitalizmu XXI veka (The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism) / In: Novaja postindustrial’naja volna na Zapade: Antologija. Moscow: Academia. (In Russian.)
- Sidorina T.Yu. (2007). Cheloveki ego rabota: iz proshlogo v informacionnuju jepohu. Obshhestvennye nauki i sovremennost’, no. 3. (In Russian.)
- Sidorina T.Yu. (2015). homo faber kak simvol ehpoxi truda. Voprosy filosofii, no. 3. (In Russian.)
- Toffler A. (2004). Tret’ja volna [The Third Wave]. Moscow: AST Publ. (In Russian.)
- Toffler A. (2009). Metamorfozy vlasti [Metamorphosis of Power]. Moscow: AST Publ. (In Russian.)
- Weber M. (1990). Nauka kak prizvanie i professiya (Science as a Vocation) / In: Weber M. Izbrannye proizvedeniya [Selected works]. Moscow: Progress. (In Russian.)
- Bunting M. (2004). Willing slaves: how the overwork culture is ruling our lives. L.: Harper Collins.
- Castells M. (1996–1997). The Information Ages: Economy, Society, & Culture. L.: Blackwell Publishers.
- Galbraith J.K. (1996). The Good Society: The Human Agenda. Boston; N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Publisher: Southern Federal University
Founder: Southern Federal University
ISSN: 2073-6606
Founder: Southern Federal University
ISSN: 2073-6606