Employment changes and social transformations. The new services’ working classes

Abstract

Changes in employment in the last decades suggest the emergence of a new working class. This article presents some data that show a process of increasing precariousness and complexity in working classes’ composition. The present situation might lead to the constitution of a new service working class, at least if this new class is capable of overcoming selfidentification and self-consciousness problems, which are produced by the segmentation of the labour market and the fragmentation of societies.