Challenges and impacts of the digital transformation of society in the social sphere

Miodrag Komarčević, Milovan Dimić and Petar Čelik

SEER Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe, 2017, vol. 20, issue 1, 31-48

Abstract: The world is rapidly entering a digital era that will fundamentally change not only the way that production operates, but also a way of life. The new industrial revolution will bring many positive changes while the introduction of the ‘smart factory’ and the digitisation of industry as a whole, or its individual sectors, will inevitably lead to changes in the labour market and in methods of work, as well as the transformation of the character of work and employment. At the same time, social polarisation and marginalisation, as well as business networking and the ‘flexibilisation’ of labour, is generating a weakening of social organisations, especially trade unions. After determining the semantic and epistemological characteristics of the key terms and concepts, this article principally examines the social impacts of the digital transformation of society. Special attention is paid to an understanding of the position of workers, their social status and general positioning in the emerging and future conditions, in addition to a visualisation of the accompanying phenomena and by-products carried by digital transformation.

Date: 2017
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/1435-2869-2017-1-31 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nms:joseer:10.5771/1435-2869-2017-1-31

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Waldseestraße 3-5, 76530 Baden-Baden, Germany
https://www.nomos-sh ... w.aspx?product=10355

DOI: 10.5771/1435-2869-2017-1-31

Access Statistics for this article

SEER Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe is currently edited by Béla Galgoczi

More articles in SEER Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe from Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG ().