Employment and labour market: contours of de-standardisation. Academic discussion at the V St. Petersburg international labour forum (St. Petersburg, 23 April 2021)

This paper aims to analyze and summarize the realities of academic discourse on fundamental transformations in the sphere of labour relations related to the development of non-standard employment. The digests of the presentations that the authors received from the speakers of the international academic pаnel «Employment and Labour Market: Contours of De-standardisation» held in the framework of the V St. Petersburg International Labour Forum in April 2021 established the scientific basis of the paper. The authors focus on the transformation of labour relations associated with their de-standardization, i.e. departure from the model with a permanent full-time employe-eemployer relationship that provides a range of social rights and guarantees. The authors review and critically analyze the evolving discourse on the current and prospective international academic issues of debates on the topic of de-standardization of labour relations. The main results of the paper are the following, firstly, an overview of the materials of the academic panel on the labour de-standardization problem; secondly, the proposed outlines of a comprehensive approach to solving the problem, primarily in terms of decent work and employment for all, taking into account international experience and country-specific features of economies; and thirdly, recommendations for further discussions towards exploring the opportunities and threats facing work and employment resulting from the Industrial Revolution 4.0 in the context of global capitalism and finding alternative ways of resolving the accumulated contradictions