Vyacheslav Bobkov - Digitisation and Precarisation: Redefining Work and Redefining Society

Die Zunahme sozialer Unsicherheit und kultureller Verunsicherung in postfordistischen Gesellschaften erzeugt einen Status Quo, in dem Prozesse der Prekarisierung und der sozialen Entkopplung (Robert Castel) verstrkt das Zentrum der Gesellschaft durchziehen. Der Verlust sozialer Garantien fhrt dabei zur Aushhlung sozialstaatlicher Errungenschaften. Dadurch werden die Lebenskontexte und das Alltagsleben der Menschen stark verndert.

Das sozialwissenschaftliche Netzwerk S.U.P.I. beschftigt sich auf europischer Ebene seit Jahren mit den gegenwrtigen Formen von sozialer Unsicherheit, Prekaritt und Ungleichheit. Die Reihe, herausgegeben von Mitgliedern des Netzwerks, prsentiert transdisziplinre Forschungen zu den sozialen und kulturellen Transformationen in den sozialstaatlich geprgten Demokratien. Sie versteht sich als Forum fr die Diskussion in nationalen, europischen und auch globalen Kontexten. Ebenen einer kritischen Analyse aus multidisziplinren und feldorientierten Perspektiven werden dabei initiiert, aufgenommen und untersttzt. berschreitung und ffnung dienen programmatisch als Wegmarken fr theoretisch-analytische Beitrge und empirisch-angewandte Forschung.

The increase of social insecurity in post-Fordist societies effect fundamental societal changes. As a consequence Precarity and Disaffiliation (Robert Castel) affecting increasingly the center of society. The loss of social guarantees leads to an erosion of the welfare state. As a result, living situations and everyday life are deeply changed.

The S.U.P.I.-Project (Social Uncertainty, Precarity, Inequality) is an European Research Group established by European and international scholars and experts. The network has been concerned with present forms of social insecurity, precariousness and inequality at European level for years. Edited by members of the network, the book series presents transdisciplinary research on aspects of social and cultural transformations in the democracies which are characterized by the welfare state. The book series opens a discursive space for discussions in national, European and global contexts. The contributions of the book series provide critical analyses from multidisciplinaryperspectives, theoretical-analytical reflections and empirical-applied research.

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The editors want to thank all contributors for the work and the patience which allowed taking the time for the work on the book. We also are grateful for the editors of the series, namely David Kergel (very especially him), Rolf Hepp and Robert Riesingerequally patient and supportive. Not least special thanks go to Veronica Sheen who helped with some language editing. Without the engagement of Vadim Kvachev, going far beyond the role of an author, the project would probably not have been possible at all.

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Peter Herrmann want to extend his expression of gratitude to the Max-Planck-Institute for Social Law and Social Policy and the Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of dwithout their generous support the editorial work would not have been possible.

This publication has been financially supported by University of Ostrava, Institutional Development Project (IRP) No. 201819 Social and Cultural Mechanisms of In- and Exclusion: A Comparative Perspective.