What do we do when we work? How is work organized? What are its economic, social, political, ecological and biographical effects? We cannot answer these questions without going through the multiple categories that are used to describe work, such as "skilled" work, "domestic work", "wage work", "platform work", "essential work" etc. But where do these categories come from, what is their history, how do they differ from each other? But where do these categories come from, what is their history, how do they differ from country to country and how do they evolve? Shifting Categories of Work asks these questions, highlighting the many ways in which our societies categorise work.

Presentation

Hybrid Book Launch and Panel Discussion in the Presence of the Authors : Shifting Categories of Work. Unsettling the Ways We Think about Jobs, Labor and Activities, Londres, Routledge, 2022, 300 p. (eds L. Herzog & B. Zimmermann).

June 1, 2023 | 4.30 p.m.–6 p.m. - Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Wallotstr. 19, 14193 Berlin

Discussants

• Gregory Jackson (Professor of Human Resource Management, Freie Universität Berlin)
• Lena Hipp (Professor of Sociology, Universität Potsdam)
• Moderation: Jürgen Kocka (Professor of History, Freie Universität Berlin)

Participation guidelines

Please register by May 24 at rsvp@wiko-berlin.de, subject "book launch". Please indicate whether you will be attending online or in person.

To learn more about the book and the event: https://www.wiko-berlin.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungskalender/2023-06-01-network-working-futures-shifting-categories-of-work