Best prices Special offers for members of the PWE book club The cheapest delivery
Dr hab. Irena Boruta

Dr hab. Irena Boruta, currently an independent researcher, received a doctoral and postdoctoral degree at the University of Lodz. At that time, she focused on legal solutions defining the place of women at work. In turn, she moved her interests to the future of work, especially the impact of globalization on work, also changing affiliation. In addition to scientific and didactic work, she undertook accession negotiations in the areas of: free movement of persons and social policy from the position of deputy minister at the Ministry of Labour, Payroll and Social Policy in the Government of J. Buzek. In the years 2005–2013 she was a judge in the European Court of Justice of the European Union, more precisely in his specialized Civil Service Court. For years, she was a staff delegate and then represented the Polish Government in the International Labour Organization.

 
DOI: 10.33226/0032-6186.2020.1.1
JEL: K31

The world lacks a coherent and positive narrative that would indicate what to do next with work. These comments  should be related to the final vision of "Future work" by the ILO. This must, therefore, be accompanied by an appeal for the ILO to keep up more with today's challenges. It is not about the ILO advocating the end of work, but about the fact that in the era when artificial intelligence (more broadly: digitization) is an unfinished project, it commit to take into account two future eventualities: continuation of work or its end. This approach does not risk leaving people alone in case they lose their jobs and income permanently.

Keywords: future of work; artificial intelligence/robotics; end of work as one of the possible future scenarios