Changes in the world of labor and new qualification requirements imposed on workers

The working world has greatly changed after the industrial society advent, and it has forced workers to acquire other qualifications. In this work we aim to contextualize the emergence of technological and organizational restructuring process as well as its implications for workers qualification. The technological and scientific development give favorable conditions to companies because of the productive process of automation and flexibility. Concerning the human resources management the flexibility occurs in work relations. It is important to note that changes in the working field - analyzed in this work - do not only result from the technology changes, but it is also the result of all political and strategic decisions made by companies of different productive sectors facing the market competition. Thus, only technological advances do not determine the transformations in the working world.