Yes indeed. However, it seems to me that was the tendency even before the covid-19 pandemic. So, due to pandemic it is more than certain that the whole process of precariat will speed up. Speaking about consequences; the consequences will be very tough on global level.

Exactly, the pandemic accelerated the process of changes in the labor market and the expansion of the precariat.

Great Question Edyta Gheribi ,

Definitely COVID is going to change the food supply chain. It has its dirty hands on all aspects of trade and communication. It will continue to cost jobs and create problems I think for the next year at least. Perhaps its one benefit is that it has made telemedicine more visible and feasible.

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The awaited disruptive digitization of work and learning will only be accelerated by the virus. The precariat will not have the skills and knowledge to participate in this new market options. It was Peter Drucker, who already pointed to these options of the computer as information machine: if you are not educated (to a certain level), these new opportunities will be out of reach for you.

Basically the unusual and unprecedented nature of the crisis means that it is not only the more educated but also the ones who are in jobs and occupations more amenable to remote work who fare better. In most cases, it ends up being people with digital skills. Therefore, equipping people with digital skills has suddenly become a critical need. Even professions such as elementary school teachers, music teachers, personal fitness trainers, and the likes who may never have needed to connect remotely as a service provider have now had to connect through internet and online. Offering short training courses to improve digital skills will help in this regard. Governments have also started subsidizing internet access or providing low-cost computers for those without access to technology.

Workers in agricultural sectors may be more immune to an economic crisis, particularly in countries with more equitable land distribution, because they may be able to produce more food than they consume and are not dependent on other food sellers or that the unemployed in other sectors could be absorbed. Emerging evidence, however, indicates that COVID-19 has caused considerable harm to the incomes of less-educated agricultural sector workers. Workers in manufacturing sectors typically suffer the most during a recession, especially middle-income earners with secondary schooling.

Yes, it is, the Covid-19 crisis has hit the least educated and also temporary workers without permanent employment. I believe that agriculture is the least threatened by crisis.

Edyta Gheribi Agriculture is less threatened by the virus crisis; however, this refers more to the owners and operators of agricultural land (the very industrialized agrofactories) than to the many seasonal (year, month, day) laborers, due to public health migration restrictions. Very dramatic changes (automation) will also be seen in the related meat markets of the ‚Western‘ giants in the EU, for example. In this sense, the disruption of the labor markets will be enormous; much more labor opportunities will be destroyed than created, at least in the next 3-5 years. This is also one of the reasons, why the discourse on universal basic income and similar models is on the rise, even in many advanced states of the US. With reference to Laborem exercens, where also F.Hayek contributed to John Paul II, we can observe a profound ethical challenge, concerning the future of human labor. However, as a former lecturer and automation researcher in worker‘s colleges (1980s), our old questions are waiting for new answers, like a new social deal or so.

Already this is happening. Alot of people have been laid off or lost jobs due to the pandemic! Take for instance the tourism sector. This is one of the sector's that is hard hit. Some organizations are not even employing. Digital skills are becoming a critical aspect in labour market.....

Yes it will, it already has. Everyone suffered in the beginning. However some managed to shift their strategies quickly to virtual mode of communication and succeeded while some are still down south.

Yes, indeed as some workers who lost their jobs at the peak of the pandemic have not been recalled and there is the possibility that some organizations that hitherto employ old people might not do so presently due to the fact that old people are more susceptible to been infected by the corona virus.

I think, We will enter the era of remote work and distance learning

I'm not so sure that we will see a prolonged downturn. Looking at what happened after the 1918-19 Spanish flu (Kansas flu), we got the 1920s, an explosion of culture, spending, and the labour movement. There were a number of things that couldn't have been predicted: cars dramatically changed social behaviour, jazz became the popular music of the day, and (some) women were "shockingly" free in public. The economic inequities had been laid bare, as they have been now. The "unfairness" of concentrated wealth entered the zeitgeist. Starting with the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike (which happened in other cities as well) labour organized in new ways, including the CCF in Canada. We need to ask, what is coming that we could not have predicted? New political movements are already here (anti-racism is now a given). Economic equity is being talked about (pharmacare, affordable daycare). How do workers working from home organize? What form will new or current technologies take? (The new vaccines built to fight COVID-19 are going to dramatically change medicine, for example.)