focus include: * The concept of emancipatory/meaningful work: What is meantby ?meaningful work??  What is the connection between ?work?and ?emancipation? and which philosophical viewpoint best expresses thisconnection (Aristotelian, Marxist, liberal perfectionist, feminist, etc)? * The historical genesis of the concept of work: How has the concept andperception of work changed historically?  What are the practicalconsequences of such change?  For instance, does workplace management, as both reality and ideal, necessarily invalidate all attempts to revive orinstitute autonomous modes of productive activity?* The ethics and morality of meaningful work: What are the ethical andmoral underpinnings of the call for meaningful modes of productive work? For example, is ?meaningful work? best understood in terms of aperfectionist teleological ethics, or is it also compatible with
rights-centred theories?* The politics of meaningful work: Can meaningful work be understood as an actionable claim-right?  How does the call for meaningful work relate towider ?struggles for recognition??  Should the state be tasked withsecuring the conditions for engagement in meaningful work? How would the demand for meaningful work be best translated into public policy?  Whatunjustifiable exclusions still underpin our ideals of ?meaningful work??* Basic income and work: What is the relation between meaningful work and the basic income literature?  Is the call for a basic citizen income atodds with, indifferent to, or, instead, a support to the demand formeaningful modes of human productivity?* Work and the economy: Is meaningful work possible under market capitalism or does it, instead, require some alternative, non-capitalisteconomy?Organizers: Keith
Breen (Queen?s University Belfast), Ruth Chenoweth(Royal Holloway College)If you are interested in presenting a paper in this workshop, please

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