April 26 – May 1, 2015: Work in a degrowth society (Vienna, Austria)
Preliminary programme: Date: Sunday, Apr 26, 2015 – Friday, May 1, 2015 Time: 6:00AM – 5:00AM WUK, Vienna, Austria In today’s society there is a strong tie between labor (employment) and growth. Constant growth is needed to outbalance the increase of economic productivity and to keep the „redundant“ laborforce occupied. In public discourse workplace is one of the strongest agruments to keep dirty economies, such as the coal industry, running. But why keep this wheel of destruction turning? In a society which is not dedicated to growth also the concept of work has to be reassessed. Althought full employment cannot be the goal anymore there will be tasks in society that have to be taken care of, such as food production, care work, construction work, logistics etc. In a degrowth society this will have to be organized differently. It will have to be discussed which work is needed in society, what should be produced and how, if specialists are wanted or all-rounders or both, what is seen as important and meaningful work and how this is valued… In this course we want to have a critival look at contemporary working conditions (precarity, gender roles, migration) and learn about social ... číst více ... číst více