Post-working Society: Synthetic Freedom and Work Ethics

Abstract

The relevance of the article is due to the significant changes taking place in the field of human labor activity, caused by the transition from an industrial society to a digital one. The scientific community is increasingly talking about the labor crisis, the destabilization of the labor sphere, the growth of labor automation and its consequences, the increase in the social vulnerability of workers, on the basis of which they build various and far from rosy forecasts for the future. In the arti­cle, we turn to the concept of “post-labor society” by modern labor theorists Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, which proposes conditions for the transition to a new type of society in which labor will be reduced to a minimum and the indi­vidual will expand his freedom. Our focus is on the actualization and continua­tion of the discourse on the evolution of labor and attitudes towards work in the context of increasing technization and digitalization of society, the issue of up­dating the culture and ethics of work and the model of the worker of the informa­tion age. Based on a critical analysis of the concept of “post-labour society” by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, the author of the article comes to the conclu­sion that the proposed approach is complex as an advantage over other theoreti­cal models and the need for a critical rethinking of the definition of the “post-la­bor society”, namely the understanding of “freedom” and UBI.