Who or What Is Being Tested in Pandemic Times?
By David Stark The coronavirus pandemic is witness to a great proliferation of two types of tests. The first type is testing – new medical diagnostic tests as well as...
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The Crisis as Beginning of a New Relationship to the Professional World?
By Michel Lallement One of the effects of the pandemic crisis ascribable to Covid-19 has been the home detention of almost half of humanity. The eventual onset of such a...
Caring About What We Hold Dear and the Final Purposes of Work
By Bénédicte Zimmermann Changes in the sphere of work have been fostered over the last thirty years by a continuous process of adapting companies and their employees to the demands...
How Does the Corona Crisis Affect the Future of Work and Our View of It?
By Jürgen Kocka As long as we do not know when and how the Corona crisis will end, its social consequences are impossible to predict. These consequences will be different...
“Useful”, “Indispensable”, “Essential”: Is the Health Crisis Changing the Categories With Which We Consider Professional Activities?
By Laure de Verdalle The health crisis we are experiencing makes some professional activities appear more socially useful than others. Hospital medical staff, on the “front line” in the daily...
The Corona Crisis Reveals the Struggle for a Sustainable Digital Future
By Dirk Helbing For a long time, experts have warned of the dangers of a non-sustainable world, but few have understood the implications with regard to the use of mass...
The Need for De-Integration in Pandemic Times
By Elena Esposito The Corona virus crisis highlights the dangerous interconnectedness of society. In the space of a few weeks, the virus spread everywhere, affecting all domains of society and each...
The COVID 19 crisis accelerates structural change in the world of work
By Martin Krzywdzinski The current crisis is having a massive impact on the economy and the world of work, and we can expect it to accelerate the structural change that...
How Can We Strengthen the Contributory Logic of Work?
By Lisa Herzog The crisis has made clear that there is a logic of work that differs from the market logic and has long been overshadowed by it. You could...
Introducing #DossierCorona #workingfutures
The Corona crisis challenges our societies, and within them the field of work, in various ways. In their contributions to the #workingfutures thread of the #DossierCorona on the TRAFO Blog,...
