Youngsters and productivity: the new shapes of work and the problem of human development

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of transformations in the world of work that has brought about the post-Fordist mode of production, fueled by the global crisis of global capitalism, as well as by the consequences for employment and productivity of the young population of Latin America. The fact that cognition, language and communication the most powerful focus of immaterial production that reconfigure today the landscape of these societies in transit, makes youth a sector rapidly incorporated to changes, hardly hit by the disruption of  liberal economy and, in turn, subject of openness to new forms of social economy. The creative ability of youth subjectivities gives them a place in the exploration of new productive worlds where development is no longer related to economic processes, but the configuration of new forms of life.