Lisa Herzog, Professor of Political Philosophy on the Faculty of Philosophy and Centre for Philosophy, Politics and Economics on the College of Groningen, has been awarded a €1.5 million grant for a venture that seeks to develop a democratic philosophy of labor.
The grant is from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
The venture is entitled, “Working Democracy. A Philosophy of Work for Democratic Societies”. On the NWO website, the venture is described as follows:
How ought to democracies perceive and manage work? This venture attracts on empirical and philosophical analyses of non-standard types of work—digital, precarious, and migrant work—to research present developments and their implications for democracy. It additionally addresses the unresolved query concerning the relation between paid and unpaid work and attracts on the historical past of concepts, to develop a democratic philosophy of labor, in dialogue with societal actors, that may inform labor market regulation from a democratic perspective.
The grant will run for 5 years and will probably be used to fund a number of PhD and postdoctoral positions, amongst different issues.
You’ll be able to learn an interview with Professor Herzog here.
