Post-industrial society: from labor to creative work

At present the whole world agrees about appearance of a new post-industrial society, the knowledge society. Tendency towards the quality change of our life helps to understand a great deal. Under new conditions production gets to be science intensive, science turns to be a productive force. The labor at enterprises degrades, mastery and ability turn to be skills. In automated production the labor is replaced by machines operation. New conditions make the person labor for material needs satisfaction only and for the creation of the product alienable from him to be impossible and unnecessary. One requires from a person not only mechanical skills. A person is required to create new information and knowledge, he becomes a creator. The aim of this creation is not a labor product but an activity process itself, taken not as assigned by inner material factors but as the inner striving for self-actualization. Thus, labor aloofness can be removed by opinions change to the labor results. Due to that, creative activity is irreproducible, unique; the knowledge carrier is a unique man and cares for knowledge growth in the post-industrial society so new labor becomes a rare resource for controlling economical life. Transition to a qualitatively new kind of human activity-creation has a series of prerequisites. It is important to know them from the point of view of this passage identification and to determine the stages on the way to creative activity formation