Pechkurov I.V., Gnatyuk M.A. Key risks of transformation of labor values of Russian youth and their social consequences

Abstract

The key trend in labor values transformation of youth is gradual devaluation of the spiritual and moral values of the labor component while fixing pragmatic and primarily financially oriented component that contributes to the formation of risks of Russian youth deprofessionalization. For the modern Russia, this problem is also becoming increasingly relevant, since the informal sector is a significant portion of the labor market, and the part of the young people who in search of higher pay does not want to tie themselves a permanent place of work, they are quite mobile and ready to move to another city and even in other countries with the prospects of favorable earnings. Based on the analysis of labor values of youth, the conditions of their formation and changes in the current state of the labor market in Russia, we can say that the key trends in labor values transformation of Russian youth are such as pragmatism, instrumentalization, dehumanization. Russian youth like a mirror, which reflects the extremely unattractive image of the whole of Russian society at the present stage. Becoming of the work values occurs in risk-filled social environment that causes risk-taking transformation vector of labor values of youth. The declarative principles of equal opportunities and chances for the realization of subjectivity of youth in unregulated vocational and labor market in the existing system of social inequality and a freedom have determined labor values transformation of the Russian youth. This article analyzes this problem.