From work as certainty to work as uncertainty

Abstract

Post-industrial capitalism, automation and the new working conditions change the adjective of work as certainty established in industrial capitalism and work opens its way to uncertainty, where new dynamics in the world of work reconfigure the well-being that seemed assured when obtaining a job. The objective of this essay is to reflect on how the rules of the game of neoliberal capitalism put the market at the center of the provision of welfare and determined changes in the world of work, leaving in a secondary role the State that defines its responses in social programs placing the individual as responsible for their trajectory, without considering contextual variables, exacerbating uncertainty. Finally, proposals for managing this uncertainty are analyzed from an active State, such as universal basic income and alternative responses from the community, from the social economy, because in the face of this reconfiguration of the world that gives rise to unprecedented threats, opportunities must arise without precedents to manage uncertainty.