Recognizing that we are immersed in a culture where technologies decisively shape the dominant forms of production implies assuming that we are incorporated into the emergence and growth of new knowledge. Assuming this would imply a stimulus for change and modification of the nature and experience of interpersonal relationships in a wide range of human activities, including forms of work. Therefore, there is the assumption that, in projections about the future of humanity, the world of work, in its different expressions, affects groups, institutions and organisations, having repercussions on many contents and symbolic representations, sets of values, meanings, interpretations, relationships of power and legitimations of this. Not surprisingly, the development of new technologies, with the recognition that these are what will determine future vitality, are key to emerging industries and regulatory policies around the world. However, technological progress will allow the substitution of some labour functions since there are human skills that are irreplaceable by machines; therefore, complementarities between human and artificial intelligence will occur. The irreplaceable refers to the processes of human interaction that, through different investigations, show that the construction of meanings continues to be a quality of the human condition and the world of life.

It is possible to highlight that some of these transformations related to work have produced precariousness and exacerbated existing problems (unemployment, informal market) globally and in the country.

Such transformations predicted for the world of work are also reflected in professional practice, where it is argued, on the one hand, that professionals would have sufficient skills and resources to adapt to the changing world of work. On the other hand, some propose the advent of a post-professional society since the digital society would come to install itself, causing a change in the generation and distribution of knowledge in the population. Such perspectives coexist with those that propose that there is sufficient background to sustain that the future represents many questions and reflections for the development of professional work. However, it must be made explicit that the changes in the labour universe are taking place and are directly related to the transformations in the production of individual and collective political subjectivities, considering that work implies technology and implies a relationship with the production of tangibles and intangibles of incessant human activity socio-historically.

However, all these perspectives converge in that professional workers’ lives are undergoing significant changes in the current socio-labour context, relevant antecedents to discuss in the context of the Congress of the Network of Schools of Social Work of Chile.

1. Work and Professional Practice.
2. Public Policies and Labour.
3. New Forms of Work.
4. Feminism and Work.
5. Work and Artificial Intelligence.

Chilean or foreign research social workers. Research professionals with proposals and data to develop presentations aligned with the congress axes and sub-axes.

Social workers and social science professionals working in public institutions and/or non-profit organisations: professionals who have developed research projects and public policies with meaningful impact or replicable good practices related to some of the congress axes.

Undergraduate or postgraduate students developing their final research projects (thesis): students from all types of higher education institutions developing or finishing research projects in areas related to the congress axes.

Leaders from communities, indigenous groups and social organisations, and public policy actors: to be invited by the congress organisers.

Those interested in presenting papers must send the abstracts through the congress platform with an extension of between 800 to 1000 words. Abstracts have to be sent through the congress website.

The deadline for sending the abstracts is between June 15 and August 15, 2022.

Abstracts will be evaluated by the congress academic commission, accepting proposals with different degrees of progress (i.e., research projects at the beginning, middle or end-stage) but associated with the five congress axes.

The abstracts must contain the following information located at the top of the document:

• Thematic axis where the paper proposal is inscribed
• Level of progress (for research or intervention projects (ongoing investigation, research results, experiences systematizations, among others)).
• Name and last names of authors (maximum 2)
• Position (if applicable)
• Organisation or institution (if applicable)
• Country and city of residency
• E-mail
• Phone number

In order to develop a proper evaluation of proposals, we recommend that abstracts be clear regarding the following elements:

1. 1. The argument, object, phenomenon, or problem to be exposed
   2. The theoretical, methodological, and empirical fundamentals
   3. The relevance and originality of the topic
   4. The knowledge contribution made by the proposal

Abstracts must be sent in Word format, Calibri or Arial fonts, word-size 11, 1.15 spacing, and justified text. Presentation titles in bold and centred. Subtitles in bold and right justified. Citation style APA, 7 edition.

• The proposal is inscribed in one of the congress axes
• The argument is clear
• Theoretical, methodological, and empirical fundamentals
• Topic originality and appropriateness
• Contribution to professional and disciplinary knowledge

The results will be known on September 30, 2022.

Enrolment and payments will be available on the congress website based on the following categories and prices:

• • Presentations: $ 25.000 (USD 30.25)
  • Professionals and general public: $ 30.000 (USD 36.3)
  • Postgraduate students: $ 15.000 (USD 18.15)
  • Undergraduate students : $ 5.000 (USD 6.05)

Adela Bork, Sandra Iturrieta y Sara Salum.
Responsible contacts of the axis.
consultas@congresointernacionalts.cl