Original scientific paper
ANDRÉ GORZ: THE END OF LABOUR AND POST–HIRED–LABOUR SOCIETY
Rade Kalanj
; Faculty of Philosphy, Zagreb
Abstract
The paper deals with a problem survey of some ideas by the contemporary French social theoretician Andre Gorz. After a review of the genesis and sources of Gorz theoretizing the attention is paid to the issues of the “end of labour” and the “labour society”, which are intensively dealt in his works “Goodbye to the Proleratiate”, “Paradise Ways” and especially in “Labour Metamorphoses”. However, the main analysis is concerned with Gorz's most recent work “Contemporary poverty, future richness”, in which the “end of labour” and “labour society” are extensively explained from various aspects (employment, working time, mondialization, etc.) and in which a “utopian” vision of a “post–hired–labour society” is designed. The paper tries to show that an important Gorz's intention refers to a transfromation of a well–fare state into a well–fare society.
Keywords
employment; end of labour; hired labour; labour; labour society; mondialization; multiactivity; post–hired–labour society; utopy
Hrčak ID:
141689
URI
Publication date:
15.5.1999.
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