ABSTRACT
The post-modernists might be right in their observation that occupation and class belonging are no longer fundamental social categories for social orientation and political belonging. Work is an important factor for personal and collective experience and development. For many, work creates an important social identity. The development of work, and the development of work policies, is therefore the most important factor for future social (ex)inclusion. The development of quality of work is difficult to predict, because no simple determinism seems to be involved. A general trend in the development of the work culture is less orthodoxy and more individualism. The social consequences of the development of work are difficult to interpret, because work and the development of work is so diversified. The concept of Fordism/post-Fordism has been one important frame for the scientific debate on the changes of work.
