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Proměny obsahu a smyslu lidské práce
| Title in English | Transformations in the contents and meaning of human labor |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Psychológia práce a organizácie 2010 - Zborník príspevkov z medzinárodnej odbornej konferencie |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Psychology |
| Keywords | technical progress; physical work; mental work; psychological stress; information society |
| Description | It is the aim of this entry to analyze the development of human labor from its beginnings (hunting and gathering, Neolithic revolution, Industrial revolution) until the present (the consumer-information society). Transformations of the labor role in the information society consist in the decline of the physical labor importance and growing importance of administrative and management labor, including the accompanying psychical burdens placed on the top managers. The traditional productive human labor is continually replaced by technology but the volume of labor doesn't decline in the contemporary society. As a result of the contemporary focus of the scientific-technological progress on lowering the production costs we can observe additional decline in the need for live human labor in the production processes but the released labor force is absorbed by the mechanisms of maintenance and development of the society (education system, health-care system, administration, banks, insurance companies...). |
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