Changes in the Content of Labor and Their Social Consequences: Discussion Issues

Abstract

The article deals with debatable issues related to social consequences of changes in the content of labor caused by the development of socio-economic relations. It is shown that changing the content of labor determines the need to review characteristics of employees and workplaces, as well as the employment process itself. It is determined that changes in the content of labor is a direct challenge to the education system both in terms of content and organization (and especially in terms of resource provision). The author state the emergence of many new questions to the education economics as a scientific discipline and as an element of ensuring the educational production. Additional arguments are presented to support a position, according to which fundamental changes in the modern economy occur under the influence of fundamental shifts in the content of labor. Contradictions arising in the social structure in connection with changes in the content of labor are revealed.