{"id":7433,"date":"2021-06-02T11:03:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T10:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/all-work-and-no-play\/"},"modified":"2021-09-16T19:01:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T18:01:11","slug":"all-work-and-no-play","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/all-work-and-no-play\/","title":{"rendered":"All Work and No Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

A workshop on the philosophy of work<\/span> and<\/span> time-allocation<\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

16-18 September , 2021<\/b><\/p>\n

The Future of Work<\/span> and<\/span> Income Research Network<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0(fwistandrews@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and<\/span> Public Affairs<\/p>\n

Department of Philosophy, University of 58³Ô¹Ï<\/p>\n

Workshop to be held entirely online<\/p>\n

Thursday 16th<\/sup> September<\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
10.30am<\/td>\nWelcome and introdution to the Future of Work and Income Research Network<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11am \u2013 12:30pm<\/td>\nJonathan Wolff (Oxford University): Working at Home, Socialising at Work<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:30 \u2013 4pm<\/td>\nLisa Herzog (Groningen University): Bodies at Work<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Friday 17th<\/sup> September<\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
11am \u2013 12:30pm<\/td>\nDiana-Elena Popescu (Edinburgh University): Leisure for Every Body: Disability and the Four Day Workweek<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:30 \u2013 4pm<\/td>\nJoe Ryle (4 Day Week Campaign): Has the time come for a four-day week?<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Saturday 18th<\/sup> September<\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
11am \u2013 12:30pm<\/td>\nOtto Lehto (KCL): The Technological Unemployment Hypothesis in the UBI Debate: A Critique<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:30 \u2013 2pm<\/td>\nSimeon Goldstraw (Oxford University) Free Time Isn\u2019t Working<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3 \u2013 4:30pm<\/td>\nBertrand Rossert (World Bank): Defining Work<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201c8 hours labour, 8 hours recreation, 8 hours rest!\u201d This was the slogan adopted by many labour movements in the nineteenth century, when 16-hour working days were not uncommon. Marx believed that only part of the working day was required to supply workers\u2019 consumption needs, the rest going to support the consumption of idle capitalists. John Maynard Keynes predicted in 1930 that a fifteen-hour working\u00a0week<\/i>\u00a0was a close possibility, requiring only that work<\/span> was spread more evenly across the population.<\/p>\n

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Although less extreme than Keynes\u2019s vision, some activists today are campaigning for a four-day working week. The campaign has won some victories, with the Spanish government launching an experiment with mid-sized companies last year and<\/span> the Scottish government promising to try something similar. Besides economic questions about labour productivity and<\/span> marginal returns, there are deep philosophical questions around the\u00a0allocation of time<\/i>\u00a0to work<\/span>. We hope to address these in this workshop. Some examples are:<\/p>\n

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  • How do we distinguish labour, recreation, and<\/span> rest?<\/li>\n
  • Should time spend recuperating between physically exhausting tasks count as rest or part of labour?<\/li>\n
  • Should activities undertaken to \u2018decompress\u2019 after mentally or emotionally taxing work<\/span> count as recreation?<\/li>\n
  • Are there important differences between relaxation activities and<\/span> leisure activities?<\/li>\n
  • In his 1966 essay, \u201cThe Abolition of Work<\/span>\u201d, Bob Black distinguished work<\/span> from play<\/span> in terms of the latter being\u00a0voluntary<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 but what is the relevant category of \u201cvoluntariness\u201d here?<\/li>\n
  • What about the allocation of domestic and caring labour? How does this play into patterns of gender inequality and other forms of social imbalance?<\/u><\/li>\n
  • Is\u00a0time<\/i>\u00a0the right measure of the balance between work<\/span>, leisure, and<\/span> rest? What about intensity, satisfaction, etc.?<\/li>\n
  • Is flexibility in working time always a blessing, or can it be a hidden curse?<\/li>\n
  • How should we think about the allocation of working time among the population? Can some groups \u201csteal time\u201d from others? What about the allocation of time across generations?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
    For More Information<\/strong><\/div>\n
    Alex Douglas (axd@st-andrews.ac.uk)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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