Currently it is fashionable to talk about digitisation robotisation industry 4.0 but also
about the gig economy the Millenials precarisation and the like. However the relevant issues
are too often taken in isolation referring to an extrapolation of overcome structures. The
present collection aims on moving further by qualifying some aspects and also by approaching
the topic from distinct perspectives in order to arrive at an assessment of emerging changes of
the socio-economic formation. ContentDigitisation and Precarisation - Redefining Work and
Redefining Society · Economy of Difference and Social Differentiation. Precarity - searching
for a new interpretative paradigm · Society under Threat of Precarity of Employment ·
Precarious Employment: Definition of the Concept Given by Russian Researchers · Digitisation: A
New Form of Precarity or New Opportunities? · Labour market performance and digitisation of
work: brief overview · Australia's precarious workforce and the role of digitisation · The
Czech Republic - a Case Study · Predictable uncertainty - Social Land Programme in Hungary ·
Affirmative and Alternative Discourses and Practices of Knowledge Production and Distribution
in Turkey · Electric dreams of welfare in the 4th industrial revolution: An actor-network
investigation and genealogy of an Algorithm · Bringing Precarity to the Political Agenda The
Editors Vyacheslav Bobkov Doctor of Economics Professor Chief of the Laboratory of Problems
of Life Quality and Living Standards of the Institute of Socio - Economic Problems of
Population of the Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow Russia Peter Herrmann social
philosopher having worked globally in research and teaching positions in particular on social
policy and economics
