Original scientific paper
BETWEEN THE SOCIETY OF WORK AND THE SOCIETY OF KNOWLEDGE
Antun Šundalić
; Faculty of Economy, University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
The nineteenth century industrialization brought at first to Europe, a then to the world, a new society of work, called capitalism. That capitalism still exists just not in the way of the nineteenth century. The past two centuries have shown the whole capacity of adaptation, rearrangement, flexibility and networking of the capitalist society of work in a manner that it has become more known like the society without work. Globalization brought an open, free, world market in which the new paradigm of information technology has become dominant. It enforced the priority of symbolic capital over physical capital, the worker of knowledge over the physical worker, to the economy. In addition, it changed the old syntagma “society of work” with the new “society of knowledge”. Is the society of knowledge a step towards freedom of labor as an existential necessity, or is it the way towards a new susceptibility to large capital is the subject of this paper. This paper also shows the state of Croatian society which is trying to enter the society of knowledge from the society of work
Keywords
society of work; society of knowledge; symbolic capital; worker of knowledge; the paradigm of information technology; globalization
Hrčak ID:
87763
URI
Publication date:
27.9.2012.
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