Society and Work in Latin America: the re-structuration of work experiences in a digital world

PEDRO LISDERO

Beijing

Congreso; 2019 Area Studies Forum. Tsinghua University; 2019

Tsinghua University

The numerous researches that describe and explain the transformations of the "world of labor" over the last twenty years can not ignore the "global / local" component running through these phenomena. Thus, there are no isolated processes in the re-configuration of the labor experience of millions of subjects dispersed in different parts of the world, which requires investigating how certain links are established between global processes and the specific demonstrations in particular regions.In the described context is important to understanding how and why the reconfiguration of work experiences comes about in the context of the massification of the modifications produced by the digitalization of society. The digital society brings together the expansion of Industry 4.0 (and digital labour) with the wide spread and globalization of digital consumption: increasingly, although diverse in the different global geometries, all areas of people's lives are colonized by the logic of the digital, and in this sense the different work experiences are affected (not only those that deal with the production and distribution of ICTs).Thus, this paper aims to explore the connections between these two critical dimensions of the social structuration process in Latin America: the restructuring of the world of work and the impact of the digitalization of life. For this, it is proposed to contextualize, describing both processes from the analysis of secondary data, and later, address a series of significant experiences from virtual ethnography records. The aim is to stress objective and subjective elements in the comprehension of a global phenomenon, highlighting the contributions that can be reconstructed from the perspective of those who live these processes from Latin America.