Law, Labour and the Humanities: Contemporary European Perspectives

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures Notes on contributors Introduction: I work, therefore I am? 1 Revisiting the Cartesian consequentiality 2 Work in Europe, today: a transdisciplinary perspective Acknowledgements PART I: Law and Philosophy 1. Migrants, Marx, Descartes, Fichte and Hegel: On working and being 1. Being and working: from causality to substantiality 2. Being and working: from necessity to contingency 3. Descartes or the primacy of productive being above being-at-rest 4. Fichte or the citizen as labourer 5. Hegel 6. Concluding remarks Bibliography 2. Work, pensions and transgenerational justice 1. Labor market 4.0 2. What is transgenerationality? Bibliography 3. The disclosure of humanity: Challenges of the digital turn 1. (Mis)Understanding 2. Indeterminate subjectivities: no time, no space, no clear task 3. Disclosure of humanity 4. The blurred boundaries between means and ends 5. The blurred boundaries between action and contemplation 6. Free time is not freedom: legal ontology of the workforce Bibliography 4. How the future of work can work for the workers 1. Technology and Work 4.0 2. Career law 3. Work quality law 4. Talent law 5. Protection beyond status 6. Embracing the future Bibliography 5. Europe and the construction of a worker mentality: Human rights as an instrument of neoliberal government? The case of Dutch labour activation programmes for welfare recipients 1. Introduction 2. Governing the good worker 3. Welfare-to-work policies in the Netherlands 4. Case studies and methods 5. Sanctions policies and worker mentalities in municipalities A and B 6. Role-playing worker 7. Fulfilled worker 8. Social human rights: an instrument for incentivizing or punishing recipients? Bibliography 6. From work to mobilization 1. Revelation 2. Transformation 3. Repression 4. Transvaluation 5. Mobilization Bibliography 7. On working and being: The legal metaphysics of labour and the constitutional errors of Social Europe 1. Introduction: a legal metaphysics of work 2. The ontology of normativity and the deep constitutional role of law 3. The crisis of labour law and the mistakes of the good European 4. Constituting economic reality and the forgotten influence of ordoliberal constitutional theory 5. The European Union’s constitution of the worker: between mobility and nowhere 6. Small developments in the legal constitution of the worker and the (limited) potential of the Social Pillar Bibliography 8. Irregular migrants at work and the groundless legal subject Introduction 1. The law and irregular migrants at work 2. Groundlessness and the legal subject 3. Groundless legal subjects Bibliography 9. The ontology of labor Introduction 1. The framework 2. The three dimensions of labor 3. The varieties of labor 4. Why labor? Bibliography 10. Objectivity, repetition, and the search for satisfaction 1. Introduction 2. Kant and the object: from (Cartesian) deducibility to structural heterogeneity 3. Freud’s Wiederholungszwang, Lacan’s Jouissance 4. Conclusion: “not about them, but not without them” Bibliography PART II: Literature and Cinema 11. From text to work: Or, operation without production Bibliography 12. Works by Vitaliano Trevisan and the representation of work in the neo-liberal age Introduction 1. A methodological note 2. Case-study: Works by Vitaliano Trevisan 3. Final considerations Bibliography 13. I can quit whenever I want The academic precariat in Italian cinema Introduction 1. The neoliberal paradigm 2. Italian cinema and the revenge of the precarious researcher Bibliography 14. Refusal of work in Italian literature: From Vogliamo tutto by Balestrini to Works by Trevisan Bibliography 15. Labour and identity in documentary web series on new Italian emigrants Introduction 1. Migration as expulsion: brain drain, gain or waste? 2. The diaspora of Italians abroad in documentary web series 3. Labour, identity and the condition of post-migration Bibliography 16. Deux jours, une nuit and La loi du marché: The tactical withdrawal of government and capital Introduction 1. Neoliberalism 2. Deux jours, une nuit 3. La loi du marché 4. Human capital, private government, evaluation 5. Affect and fantasy 6. Symbolic authority Bibliography 17. When The Flash said: “We were all struck by that lightning”: Work and contemporary superhero TV shows Introduction 1. Realism of an unreal world 2. The superhero goes to work 3. Work-related themes 4. Europe Bibliography 18. ‘A new name and a new job, that’s what he’d like’: Identity, labour and precarity, 1915–2015 Bibliography 19. In the name of a loss: Work and the contradictions of contemporary literary imaginary Introduction Bibliography Index