Shifting categories. Unsettling the way we think about work (III)
March 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
Roberto
Frega
CNRS, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
Philipp Christian
Grollmann
Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung, Bonn
Linxin
He
Max-Planck-Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik
Martin
Kuhlmann
Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen an der Georg-August-Universität
Frédérique
Letourneux
EHESS, Centre Georg Simmel
Gabrielle
Schütz
GSPM, EHESS
Michael
Tiemann
Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung, Bonn