The legacy of Marco Biagi and my Canto libero on Startmag
Only territorial, corporate and individual contracts can recognize the value of work in the concrete circumstances in which it takes place, thus offering adequate motivation to too many people tempted by assisted inactivity and minimal activities
The periodical column "My free song" moves today to this newspaper that welcomed it. The coincidence with the anniversary of Marco Biagi's death is casual but emblematic, and remains the main source of inspiration for the considerations carried out here. On the one hand he was extraordinarily prescient of the great transformation of the ways of producing and working induced by digital technologies. On the other hand, the ideological resistance of the time is still present and many institutional and social decision-makers lack the courage to face it.
Intellectual and civil courage was Marco Biagi's hallmark and must be the distinctive element of those who want to honor him today. Because it takes courage to reject the optical illusion of merely defensive labor policies in a time of continuous change.
Work is not protected with passive subsidies or with independent financing of employment centers. Accompanying workers in forced employment transitions means mobilizing a plurality of intermediaries capable of retraining each person according to a specific company that wants to recruit them. The time of the mechanical meeting between supply and demand and catalog training for standard profiles is over because the demand for work is always original. Furthermore, we live in a time of supply crisis (and the difficulty of recruitment) due to demographic decline, educational and training failures, the loss of sense of effort and sacrifice.
Biagi indicated the resumption of the social lift, the renewal of pedagogical methods and contents, the reorientation of work performance from timetables to objectives and results. The same response to the dangers of replacing work represented by artificial intelligence now consists of even more comprehensive training and the involvement of workers in the life of companies.
Wages can no longer be decided centrally but must reflect productivity, professionalism, inconvenience and the cost of living. Only territorial, corporate and individual contracts can recognize the value of work in the concrete circumstances in which it takes place, thus offering adequate motivation to too many people tempted by assisted inactivity and minimal activities.
We will talk about all of this in this column to promote an active and inclusive society, freed from old ideologies and self-referential social bodies. We will follow the dynamics underway in protection and representation associations so that service to members always prevails over the defense of the role of bureaucracies and the politicism of management groups.
Maurizio Sacconi
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/maurizio-sacconi-marco-biagi-canto-libero-startmag/ on Sat, 23 Mar 2024 07:18:14 +0000.