Work and hope in 2020

Abstract

This essay begins by remembering the concept wrought by Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) that hope’s root is in the possibilities within reality. The technical changes and social struggles in the industrial era showed the hope of recognition of worker’s rights of better conditions of life and more dignity, so that it’s to say that hope and work have been straight together in the contradictions of modern times, in the world as in Brazil. At this critical moment of a pandemia; when societies go into technological and the demand of workers at industry decrease, and when almost disappear the confidence on stable employments, humanity has the challenge to reflect about its activity – what transcend the material productive work, and have to invent solutions, even if it seam to belong to the order of hope as concrete utopias, but are not impossible to make real.