2/2/24 The philosophy and politics of work

Date: 2 February, 2024.

Time: 10 am – 5 pm (US EST)

Location: Dennis Thompson Seminar Room, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University

The event is organized by Nicholas Vrousalis (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Nien-he Hsieh (Harvard Business School) and supported by the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard.

This workshop will explore recent scholarship on work and its relations to property rights, economic independence, and the state.

Chair: Alex Gourevitch

10 – 11am Lisa Herzog (Groningen)

“Labor markets without market wages”

11.15 – 12.15pm Nicholas Vrousalis (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

“Class, gender, and race as alienated labour”

12.15 – 1.15pm Lunch

Chair: Nien-he Hsieh

1.15 – 2.15pm Yunhyae Kim (Harvard)

“The State, the Liberal Economy, and Egalitarian Redemption”

2.30 – 3.30pm Lucas Stanczyk (Harvard)

“Work, freedom, class”

For more information, contact nvrousalis@fas.harvard.edu