ABSTRACT
The Second Industrial Divide entailed a parallel discourse about the transformation of work and employment as well as that of its meaning in western societies. As David Harvey very illustratively described it, while analysing the annihilation of space through time, capital flows demolish spatial barriers, thus decentralising production and enhancing the de-territorialisation of financial markets. One should keep in mind that the service economy of the post-industrial society is currently characterised by a dominant trend of creating low-status and low-paid jobs, designed mainly for a female and migrant workforce. Efficiency and productivity make up the new dogma of flexible capitalistic accumulation as modes of escaping from the old iron cage of the rigid welfare regime and the dinosaur of bureaucratised production. Temporary workers positions might seem liberating from old employment relationships, leading to a more personalised and creative work history.
