Back to normality. Which one? Old and new perspectives on work in the age of crises, ISA WORLD CONGRESS, Melbourne, Australia, july 25-june 1st

technologies) is certainly not new, but perhaps certain forms of resistance, objection and desertion are. These concern both young people who refuse to participate in a generationally punitive and increasingly greedy and exploitative labor market, and the new phenomenon of the so-called “great resignations”, all to be analyzed and understood, which seems to originate precisely from the stop imposed by the pandemic, that brought many workers to reconsider their work and life conditions. On one side there is now a large public debate on the “great resignations” as phenomenon, but on the other one actually it is necessary to understand it and who are its protagonists. The hypothesis of a rejection of working conditions and therefore of life is certainly one of the possible, but there is also to be considered a possible attempt to subvert the order of values imposed with practices that express objection and desertion from the system. The public discourse around the phenomenon will be analysed, as well as some social groups that gather under various labels referring to the phenomenon indicated. The relationship between the pandemic as a moment of rupture will therefore be considered in the light of a growing demand for flexibility of the labor supply that is probably in this case reworked in terms of reappropriation of spaces, life and autonomy. A sort of boomerang of flexibility that could prelude to an alternative to the current model