Shifting categories. Unsettling the way we think about work (II)
February 25–26, 2021
Work gets constantly categorized and classified. It is described as “skilled” or “unskilled”, “formal” or “informal”, “essential” or “non-essential”, “good” or “bad”. Work-related categories are embodied in laws, social norms and practices, formal and informal institutions, thereby shaping the realities of employers and workers. As such, work-related categories are intertwined with questions of power, prestige, and the distribution of material and immaterial benefits. The ongoing process of transformation of work over the three last decades has put into question many established categories and raised new ones. The Corona pandemic, with its large-scale effects on our societies, has emphasized and given a special visibility to these processes of (re)categorization.
During this workshop the members of the “Working Futures” research network and further internationally renowned scholars reflect on the various ways in which work is categorized and how these categorizations have been shifting in the last decades. The workshop is part of a joint research project that is intended to lead to a publication on the Categorization of Work.
This workshop will take place virtually.
Speakers
Sophie
Bernard
Fellow
2020/2021
Université Paris Dauphine - PSL
Marianne
Braig
Freie Universität Berlin
Josépha
Dirringer
Université de Rennes
Linxin
He
Max-Planck-Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik, München
Robert
McMurray
University of York
Nicola
Schalkowski
Freie Universität Berlin
Blanche
Segrestin
Mines ParisTech
Natalia
Slutskaya
University of Sussex
Ruth
Yeoman
University of Oxford