THE “NEW THINGS” OF THE

WORLD OF WORK
LESSON 13

EUTHENICS 1

P R E PA R E D B Y:
Franciz Rivera
Pearl Jane Rodil
Ivan Joshua Rosales
I. AN-EPOCH
MAKING PHASE
OF TRANSITION
Phenomenon of globalization-
cause of the current change in the
organization of work.
Globalization- brings new
forms of production where
plants are located away from
where strategies are decided and
far from the markets where the
goods are consumed.
TWO PRIMARY FACTORS DRIVING GLOBALIZATION

Speed of communication no longer

limited by space or time

The relative ease with which

merchandise and people are transported
from one part of the world to another
NOTE!
NOTE! If it is true that globalization is
neither good nor bad in itself, but
depends on how it is used, it must
be affirmed that a globalization of
safeguards, minimum essential
rights and equity is necessary.
Physical fragmentation of the cycle of production
-most significant characteristics of the
new organization of work

Significant consequences for the life of

individuals and communities subjected to radical
changes
Level of material conditions

Culture and values

 The globalization of the economy

Liberalization of markets Stiffening of competition

Increase of specialized businesses in

providing goods and services

Requires greater flexibility in the Organizing and managing

labor market production processes.

In this area it seems appropriate to lend:

greater moral, cultural and planning attention
Work (in more developed
countries) is going through a
phase that marks the passage from
an industrial-type economy to an
economy essentially built on
services and technological
innovations.
 This entails far-ranging consequences
for:
Organizing the production and
exchange of goods

Defining job requirements and

providing effective social
protection
 Through technological innovations

• Work is being enriched with new

professions while others are disappearing
• Transition shows that there is a continuous
movement of workers from the industrial
sector to that of services
There is an increase in job
activity in the area of:

personal services
in part-time
temporary
“non-traditional” employment
 Defence of workers and their rights

Demands Complexities
Technological of
of innovation financial
competition fluxes
 Decentralization
of production
-assigns to smaller companies
several tasks previously
undertaken by larger production
interests, gives vitality and new
energy to the area of small and
medium-sized businesses.
 PROS
THE FOLLOWING FACTORS Establish positive personal
MAKE THE ACTUAL WORK
EXPERINCE MORE HUMAN relationships and greater
initiative and industriousness
Work in small and medium-
sized businesses

The work of artisans CONS

Unjust treatment, poorly
Independent work paid and uncertain work
EXPANSION OF “INFORMAL”
AND “HIDDEN” ECONOMIC
ACTIVITIES

 Sign of economic growth and

development

 Raises many ethical and legal

problems
 II. SOCIAL
DOCTRINE
AND THE
“NEW THINGS”
 CHURCH’S SOCIAL
DOCTRINE
-to avoid the error of insisting that
the current changes take place in a
deterministic manner.
 

The decisive factor and “referee” of this complex phase of change

is once more the human person, who must remain the true protagonist
of his work.
 According to the teaching of the Church's social doctrine
must be given due priority, because human work “proceeds
directly from persons created in the image of God and
called to prolong the work of creation by subduing the
earth”
 Mechanistic and economistic interpretations of the activity of
production have been outdated by scientific analysis of the problems
connected with work.

The Church has always taught that men and women, unlike
every other living being, have certain needs that are not
restricted merely to “having”
 The human person faces the adventure of the transformation of
things through work in order to satisfy requirements and needs.

The historical forms in which human work is expressed change,

but not its permanent requirements, which are summed up in the
respect of the inalienable human rights of workers.
NOTE!
NOTE!
The more substantial the
changes are, the more
decisive the commitment
of intellect and will to
defend the dignity of work
needs to be.
 THIS PERSPECTIVE MAKES IT POSSIBLE TO ORIENT THE CURRENT
TRANSFORMATIONS FOR THE BEST, BETWEEN THE

 local and the global economic dimensions,

 the “old” and the “new” economy,

 technological innovation and the need to safeguard human

work

 economic growth and development compatible with the

 Men and women of science and culture are called to
NOTE!
NOTE! make their particular contribution to solving the vast and
complex problems connected with work.

Men and women fall the important task of reading and

interpreting the social phenomena with wisdom and with
love of truth, leaving behind concerns imposed by special
or personal interests.
 “Solidarity too must become globalized”

Economic and social imbalances in the world

of work must be addressed by restoring a just
hierarchy of values and placing the human
dignity of workers before all else
 The new realities such as the globalization of
finance, economics, trade and labor, must never
violate the dignity and centrality of the human person,
nor the freedom and democracy of peoples.
 There is an ever-greater need for a careful consideration
of the new situation of work in the present-day context of
globalization, in a perspective that values people's natural
tendency to establish relationships
 The ultimate foundation of this dynamism
is the working person, who is always the
subjective and never the objective element.
NOTE! The negative aspects of the globalization of
NOTE!
work must not damage the possibility opening
up for all people: that of giving expression to
a humanism of work on a planetary scale, to
solidarity in the world of work on this same
level
No matter what work we
have, let us always work
morally and ethically.
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