FUTURO(S) DO TRABALHO

[ ]the future of work today is deeply uncertain, and this uncertainty must be acknowledged without letting it paralyze the sociological imagination or depoliticize social action While the front line often receives attention and applause when it consists of medical workers (and without necessarily translating into material benefits for those workers), precarious workers in transport and delivery, food and agricultural production, and other manual-labor sectors constitute an "invisible front line " In many cases, such as industrial food production, these workers exist within spaces that are at risk for infection and many pay with their lives (Waltenberg, Victoroff, Rose et al , 2020) [ ]in economies with large informal sectors, small-business retailers and other informal jobs have continued in the face of crisis, with the workers therein assuming similar risks [ ]as unemployment figures soar to unprecedented levels in much of the world (Blustein et al , 2020;Coibion, Gorodnichenko, & Weber, 2020), the boundary between work and life becomes a wall separating bare life from the possibility of materially earning a living