全球化和技术变革不仅提高了生产力,而且加剧了全球竞争。随之,这些提高导致了组织合理性的提升、责任的个体化,以及更灵活、更多变的劳动力市场条件。这些变化也导致了对劳动力自主工作、自我管理提出越来越高的要求。尽管个体化导致个体的社会空间的扩大,但也增加了复杂决策、考虑和责任领域的数量。特别是,这种变化在个人就业能力的责任方面十分明显。自我管理和自我实现变得十分必要。根据对若干有留下传纪取向的瑞典年轻人的访谈,本文讨论了这些变化的意义。文章认为,责任的个体化和自我实现的需求,对社会中的不同群体产生了不同后果。因此,有很强有力的理由对以下观念坚决提出质疑:阶级作为现代社会的分析工具,其作用已经耗尽。访谈显示,为了理解职业生活中的个体化的后果,需要对阶级加以考察。 Globalization and technological change not only increase productivity but also aggravate global competition. These improvements have subsequently led to an increase in organizational legitimacy, individual responsibility, and more flexible and varied labor market conditions. These changes have also led to higher and higher demands on labor work and self-management. Although individualization leads to the expansion of an individual’s social space, it also increases the number of complex decision-making, considerations and areas of responsibility. In particular, this change is evident in the responsibility of individual employability. Self-management and self-realization become very necessary. Based on interviews with a number of young Swedish people who have left a clear track record, this article discusses the implications of these changes. The article argues that the individual responsibility and the need for self-actualization have different consequences for different groups in society. Therefore, there are strong reasons for resolutely challenging the notion that class, as an analytical tool in modern society, has been depleted. Interviews show that in order to understand the consequences of individualization in professional life, the class needs to be examined.