Will machines take over our work, creating unemployment and misery - as present debates on full-scale digitisation suggest? Would unemployment even be a problem if social inclusion did not primarily rely on labour market integration? Which ecological concerns are regularly neglected in debates on a workless future, and is increasing the participation of women in the labour market a timely feminist demand?

These and many more questions have been discussed at the panel discussion “The Future of No Work? Critiques, Utopias, and Politics” on 17 May 2018 by the following speakers:

David Frayne, Cardiff University, UK. Sociologist and author of “The Refusal of Work. The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work” (2015).

Laurence Davis, University College Cork, Ireland. Political scientist with a focus on radical political thought. Co-editor of “Anarchism and Utopianism” (2014).

Franz Astleithner, Institute of Sociology at the University of Vienna and FORBA. Founding member of “Arbeitskreis für Müßiggang”.

Fridolin Herkommer, Austrian Chamber of Labour and head of program „Digitalization: the future of work“.

Andrea Komlosy, professor at the Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna. Author of “Work: The Last 1000 Years” (2018).

Moderation: Stefanie Gerold, Institute for Ecological Economics, WU Wien.

Find the video recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KD9kqyK54A&feature=youtu.be