Social consequences of employment flexibilisation in the era of post-Fordism/neoliberalism

Vitalina Butkaliuk

doi:10.18282/hrms.v4i1.3479

Vitalina Butkaliuk Department of Economic Sociology, Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 01001 Kiev, Ukraine

Article ID: 3479

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18282/hrms.v4i1.3479

Keywords: labour relations; neoliberalism; flexibilisation of employment; non-standard employment

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the main causes and social consequences of the transformation of employment in the conditions of the transition of the world economy to post-Fordism/neoliberalism at the end of the 20th century. The author discusses the main methodological approaches to the study of this problem and also dwells in detail on the analysis of such important consequences of the transformation of the labour sphere as the increase in the vulnerability of workers’ employment, the growth of inequality, the weakening of the strength of trade unions, etc.

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