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A Study on the Transformation and Reconstitution of the Labor Society in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution in the Perspective of Christian Social Ethics

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2021, (51), pp.375-422
  • DOI : 10.21050/CSE.2021.51.12
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology
  • Received : November 3, 2021
  • Accepted : December 13, 2021
  • Published : December 31, 2021

Jeong Yong Taek 1

1한신대학교

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ABSTRACT

The crisis of labor in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution is characterized by the explosive expansion of under-employment and precarious work, not large-scale job destruction or mass unemployment, as the automation discourse argues. Therefore, labor society is not confronting the end, but rather the form of organizing social labor is transformed. At the same time, it is being reconstructed as a society where capital’s dominance is still carried out by means of labor. The labor crisis in the 4th Industrial Revolution era should be analyzed in the context of the transformation and reconstruction of such a labor society. In the labor society, we encounter a paradoxical situation in which a new precarious working class called Precariat is the center of the labor regime both qualitatively and quantitatively. This phenomenon yields social severe injustice from the perspective of Christian social ethics. This article diagnoses the crisis of the labor society in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution by ethically judging such problems based on the criterion of participation

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.