Jürgen Kocka: How Does the Corona Crisis Affect the Future of Work and Our View of It?
Bénédicte Zimmermann: Caring About What We Hold Dear and the Final Purposes of Work
Michel Lallement: The Crisis as Beginning of a New Relationship to the Professional World?
David Stark: Who or What is Being Tested in Pandemic Times?
Bruce Kogut: Covid and Looking for the Exit
Sasha Disko: The End of the Pandemic of Productivism?
Constance Perrin-Joly: Rearticulating Globalization, Solidarities and Work in Ethiopia
Lena Hipp: The Digital Transformation of Work: COVID-19 as a Taste of Things to Come?
Founded in 2018, the network “Working Futures” aims to create a space for the mutual understanding and analysis of the future of work among scholars from different countries and disciplines, including history, sociology, political science, philosophy, economics and law. The future of work is driven by transformations that affect society as a whole, and have become all the more salient in times of crisis like the Corona pandemic. These mutations require empirical analysis, while also calling for a renewal of the academic approaches and methods used to make sense of them.
“Working Futures” is a project of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, which has been a place of lively intellectual exchange since 1981. Every year, an international group of Fellows from a wide variety of disciplines come together to pursue and discuss their academic work in an intellectually heterogeneous and inspiring atmosphere. The network is jointly coordinated by Bénédicte Zimmermann (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and EHESS, Paris), Andreas Eckert (re:work, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Forum Transregionale Studien) and Lisa Herzog (University of Groningen).
