Tax cuts for socially valuable work

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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN A CHANGING WORLD OF WORK
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, April 3-4, 2025

As work and employment relations change, so do philosophical analyses of their nature, significance, and organization, which this workshop will explore. Should activities like care, volunteer services, or data creation be categorized as work? What are the distinctive goods and bads involved in wage labor, self-employment, or gig work? Is there a right or a duty to work? How should liberties such as privacy or free speech be weighed against competing values in the workplace? Which principles should guide the allocation of occupational opportunities and pay? Should remote work be promoted, the workweek shortened, or workplaces democratized? What are the distributive and relational wrongs, if any, that automation, workforce polarization, or sluggish productivity growth entail, and which responses are suitable to address them?



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The workshop will be held at Sala Polivalent, located in the Mercè Rodoreda Building on the Ciutadella campus of Pompeu Fabra University. Further information on the campus location and the Mercè Rodoreda Building can be found here: Ciutadella Campus Information. Please find the program for the event below:

April 3, Sala Polivalent (Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27, Mercè Rodoreda building)
9h. Welcome with coffee
9.30h. Michal Masny (MIT) Work and the Good of Everyday Detachment. Chair: Jahel Queralt (UPF)
10.45h. Zöe Clark (Brown) Deus Ex Machina?: Freedom and the Machine Question in the 21st Century. Chair: Pablo Scotto (UB)
12h. Lunch break
13h. Alexander Bryan (Cambridge) When jobs become (more) hazardous. Chair: Andrée-Anne Cormier (ÉNAP).
14.15h. Huub Brouwer and Willem van der Deijl (Tilburg) Tax cuts for socially valuable work. Chair: Chris Zhang (UPF)
15.30h. Coffee break
16h. Keynote: Julie Rose (Dartmouth) The Social Costs of the Elite's Work Culture: An Egalitarian Case for Universal Work Time Regulations. Chair: Serena Olsaretti (UPF & ICREA)

April 4, Sala Polivalent (Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27, Mercè Rodoreda building)
9h. Tobias Jaeger (Freiburg) Basic Income Exit as a Social Good. Chair: Andrés Cano (UPF)
10.15h. Coffee break
10.45h. Xiyue Yang (CEU) A Progressive Approach to Sharing Necessary Burdensome Work. Chair: Tom O'Shea (Edinburgh)
12h. Lunch break
13.30h. Victor Chung (Toronto) The Efficiency Objection to Workplace Democracy: A Paretian Approach. Chair: Andrew Williams (UPF & ICREA)
14.45h. Coffee break
15.15h. Keynote: Jonathan Wolff (Oxford) Working from Home: Socialising at Work. Chair: Iñigo González-Ricoy (UB)
16.45h. Closing remarks



Conveners: Andrés Cano (UPF) ([email protected]), Iñigo González-Ricoy (UB) ([email protected]), and Jahel Queralt (UPF) ([email protected]) within the remit of the UPF Law & Philosophy research group.

Period	3 Apr 2025
Event title	Political Philosophy in a Changing World of Work
Event type	Workshop
Location	Barcelona, SpainShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International