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In 1908, the world marveled at the start of an extraordinary period of economic relief. Mass production of the first cars available to put employee of Henry Ford the opportunity to be the first consumers of the mass society. The American dream became more real than ever. A century later, in full financial crisis, workers no longer have that security that allowed them to think long term and the assembly lines stopped working. Experts are struggling to define a reality as new as unstructured and seeking explanations that will convince Descant amid widespread. The end of utopias and abandoning the idea of progress, this is how it presents itself the new postmodern stage.

A historic moment that begins after the fall of the Berlin Wall and that continues to this day. A cycle in which there is a change in the capitalist economic order with the emergence of consumerism as a mainstay of the system and which crystallized a new global paradigm: globalization. Fragmented society to which, the Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid added the adjective no longer has pre continents. Institutional structures to which workers have become invisible adhered and slippery. The individual is constrained to the inability to string together a coherent narrative of his life. The job for life and peace of mind of knowing that not only paid in the measured but also valued for the work and daily efforts are circumstances of a past that many still longing to the despair and the absence of expectations caused by the constant search the immediate.

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