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On March 18, 2022 the Head of the Department of Complex Social and Economic Research of IMEMO Sadovaya E.S. presented her report "Inequality as an immanent feature of a digitalizing market" at the 6th St. Petersburg International Labor Forum "Labor Market and Employment in a Post-Pandemic Reality: Fault Lines and Vectors of Development" in the framework of the academic discussion "THE INFLUENCE OF DESTANDARIZATION OF LABOUR ON ITS QUALITY".

Elena Sadovaya in her report dwelled on the analysis of the trends in the labor market and the social sphere as a whole during the accelerated collapse of the established system of the world order, and touched upon the role of digital technologies in this process.

It was stressed that technologies leading to the platformization of the economy and the transformation of employment, contributing to the disappearance of its social component, undermining the foundations of the most important institution of the former system of the world order as the welfare state, are not a factor, but the mechanism of this transformation. The reasons are rooted in the exhaustion of the former model of economic globalization and its corresponding social system of labor division.

The crisis currently unfolding clearly demonstrates that digital technology is only a tool for managing social dynamics. Their widespread use can lead both to a reduction in the demand for labor and difficulties with the implementation of social policy and makes it possible to technologically solve the problem of reshaping established logistical chains of value creation, makes it easier to solve the problem of unemployment, makes it possible to make social policy more focused, taking into account the individual needs of people virtually online.

The speaker emphasized that the problem of inequality in its new dimension, as inequality of access to participation in the system of social division of labor, to work, will also have to be addressed in the new, emerging system of world order, about the principles of functioning of which both the scientific community and the decision-makers at the state level need to think already today.