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Transformation of Human Labour from Stone Age to Information Age

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Over the past few years, the labour market in general has been caught up in different financial and economic crises worldwide. Unemployment has grown to record levels. Our life is an odd mixture of different moments of action and inaction, work and rest. Work provides us with inner creative joy. Usually, it saves us from the dullness and boredom of life, puts our energy to proper use, provides us with money for our livelihood, and makes our lives meaningful and peaceful. We think that two things are necessary for really useful and happy work: skill and constructiveness. Work is not only an important part of our daily lives, but we have come to a point where it has taken over our lives. It is also an important political issue at the present time. Human labour is changing according to socio-ecological and technological transitions. These transitions are expected to have many far-reaching implications for human labour. To understand this situation, we have evolved a simple scheme that can be applied to the timeline of human evolution from the Stone Age to the Information Age. Using this device, we have tried to explore the historical relationships between changed regimes and the changes in human labour.

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Beno, M. (2018). Transformation of Human Labour from Stone Age to Information Age. In: Younas, M., Awan, I., Ghinea, G., Catalan Cid, M. (eds) Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems. MobiWIS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10995. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97163-6_17

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