CFP: Challenging the Work Society: An Interdisciplinary Summit
27.9. – 28.9. 2019
Birkbeck, London
Keynote: Kathi Weeks
Confirmed participants include: Aaron Bastani, Helen Hester, Sarah Jaffe, Philippe Van Parijs
This September, Chase and Autonomy will hold a two-day conference on the future of work. We invite contributions from across disciplines that relate to the critique of work, the reduction of working time and the post-work project. We want to contribute to analyses of the current crisis of work in all its facets – reproductive, waged, unwaged, automatable and non-automatable – as well as engage with utopian proposals for a future emancipated from toil. To this end we are bringing together early career researchers, political activists and prominent post-work theorists for two days of debate, discussion and collaboration.
We welcome applications of papers to be presented in 20 minutes slot and shorter – more preliminary or more provocative – presentations for the poster session.
See https://autonomy.work/portfolio/conference2019/ for more details about the Conference.
Potential contributors are encouraged to submit abstracts of up to 500 words by 09.8.2019 to conference2019@autonomy.work Accepted papers will be notified by 31.8.2019. We particularly welcome contributions from women, people of colour, and other underrepresented groups.
Key Questions:
• Is the reduction of working-time a legitimate and desirable goal for politicians and activists?
• Should unemployment resulting from automation be welcomed or should states act as an ’employer of last resort’?
• How do forms of unpaid work – care and household work for example – fit into this picture?
• At what times of our life should free time – currently usually only available to the very young and very old – be made available to us?
• What are the different intellectual currents and traditions within post and anti-work thought?
• How can empirical analyses help us understand trends in contemporary and future work?
Best wishes,
Conference Organising Committee:
Franco Bonomi Bezzo, ISER, University of Essex
Amelia Horgan. SPAH, University of Essex
Malte Jauch, Department of Government, University of Essex
Will Stronge, Autonomy
