Emerging social protection systems in the context of the reconfigurations of the world of work and the new manifestations of the social issue

Abstract

The passage from the Fordist regime to the Postfordist one implied modifications in the social protection thought in terms of Social Welfare States. In contrast, new approaches emerge such as the Active Social State (ESA), the Work Fare, the Assistance and Promotion and Social Risk Management, among others, which aim to account for the processes of re-commodification of the workforce that the new regime of accumulation imposes.
In this article, a comparative analysis of the assumptions and principles of these social protection approaches is presented first. In this regard, it is hypothesized that they imply changes in the role of the State and of the subjects themselves, to whom responsibility for their own social protection is transferred, with re-individuation processes being paid, based on the promotion of self-recycling, entrepreneurship, of associativism. Finally, the article concludes that these emerging protection systems omit the treatment of capital - labor production relations, assuming that the problem of poverty is fundamentally linked to the lack of assets of the subjects involved in situations of poverty and inequality.