"The nature of work in Australia has changed and will continue to change."
(Leader statement)
The nature of work and its role in society are changing in ways that have sparked considerable debate among social critics and scholars from multiple disciplines who study work.
Work and its role in society has become the subject of considerable public commentary and debate in recent years. Some people believe that the world of work is changing so thoroughly and quickly that we should consider ourselves pioneers of a new historical era. Some say that the idea of a job has become old-fashioned that job security has become deceptive, and that, as manufacturing gives way to service work, the workforce will be populated by more unskilled workers. Some highly classed leaders have even argued that work is disappearing altogether, at least for a significant percentage of the population. There are those who assert, more optimistically, that Still other voices argue that all such claims are overstated, either naively claimed or unnecessarily exaggerated.
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