Work and labor relations are quickly changing, and so are philosophical views about their nature, value, and suitable regulation, which this conference seeks to explore. Should activities like care, volunteering, or data creation count as work? Which are the goods, material and otherwise, that work provides access to? Is there a right, maybe a human right, or a duty to work? Which wrongs, if any, do phenomena like gig work, automation, algorithmic management, the polarization of work, or the decline of the labor share entail? How should traditional means like unionism, collective bargaining, or the right to strike be revamped to address such wrongs? Should the state foster a shorter working week, workplace democratization, self-employment, or a UBI in response to them?
The workshop will take place on July 21-23 online. It will be covered by the project Justice and Work: A Normative Analysis of Nonstandard Forms of Employment, which is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, the Spanish Research Agency, and the European Regional Development Fund (PGC2018-095917-A-I00) and led by Iñigo González-Ricoy (UB) and Jahel Queralt (UPF) within the remit of the UPF Law and Philosophy research group.
The project, which runs 2019-2021, seeks to contribute to recent philosophical work on labor justice by extending its scope to nonstandard forms of employment. Even though temporary, part-time, multi-party work and dependent self-employment are on the rise in rich countries and informal self-employment accounts for half of the workforce in developing ones, nonstandard employment relations have often gone unnoticed in extant philosophical analyses. The project seeks to inspect the normative standing of these forms of employment, the kind of objectionable practices they may entail, and the appropriate institutional means to address them.
The workshop will take place on July 21-23 online. It will be covered by the project Justice and Work: A Normative Analysis of Nonstandard Forms of Employment, which is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, the Spanish Research Agency, and the European Regional Development Fund (PGC2018-095917-A-I00) and led by Iñigo González-Ricoy (UB) and Jahel Queralt (UPF) within the remit of the UPF Law and Philosophy research group.
The project, which runs 2019-2021, seeks to contribute to recent philosophical work on labor justice by extending its scope to nonstandard forms of employment. Even though temporary, part-time, multi-party work and dependent self-employment are on the rise in rich countries and informal self-employment accounts for half of the workforce in developing ones, nonstandard employment relations have often gone unnoticed in extant philosophical analyses. The project seeks to inspect the normative standing of these forms of employment, the kind of objectionable practices they may entail, and the appropriate institutional means to address them.