Changing values of work (based on the materials from Russian and foreign publications)

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The sphere of work, which was previously central to Soviet and Russian sociology constantly covered in the Sociological Studies journal, is no longer so, although work remains an important subject of research in the conditions of the challenging digital transformation and growing uncertainty. Based on the analysis of domestic and foreign publications, the authors tried to identify current trends in the development of research that reflect global and regional changes in labor. Solving this problem allows the authors to show which problems attract the prime attention of scientists from different countries, and define the prospects for the future research. The authors show the discussion conducted by researchers on the topic of changing labor values. Particular attention is paid to how precarization is analyzed and the growth of the “meaninglessness” of labor is argued. A significant similarity of the identified problems in Russia and foreign countries is emphasized, regardless of the fact that they belong to different levels of socio-economic development, differ in work culture and other characteristics.

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Larissa G. Titarenko

Belarusian State University; Saint Petersburg State University

Author for correspondence.
Email: larissa@bsu.by

Dr. Sci. (Sociol.), Prof.

Belarus, Minsk; Saint Petersburg

Ruben V. Karapetyan

Saint Petersburg State University

Email: r.karapetyan@spbu.ru

Cand. Sci. (Econ.), Associate Prof. of the Department of Economic Sociology

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

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