Law, Labour and the Humanities

Tiziano Toracca is a literary scholar, Visiting Professor at the Department of Literary Studies, Gent University and Research Fellow at the University of Torino. Angela Condello is a legal philosopher, Adjunct Professor and Research Fellow at the University of Torino, the Principal Investigator of a Jean Monnet Module and the Director of LabOnt Law.

TABLE OF CONTENTS



Introduction



Angela Condello, Tiziano Toracca: I work, therefore I am?



Part I: Law and Philosophy










Acosta Emiliano: Migrants, Marx, Descartes, Fichte and Hegel: On Working and Being









Andina Tiziana: Work, Pensions and Transgenerational Justice









Condello Angela: The Disclosure of Humanity: Challenges of the Digital Turn









De Vos Marc: How the future of work can work for the workers









Eleveld Anja: 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









Ferraris Maurizio: From Capital to Documediality









Mason Luke: On working and being: the legal metaphysics of labour and the constitutional errors of Social Europe









Tataryn Anastasia: Irregular Migrants at Work and the Groundless Legal Subject









Terrone Enrico: The Ontology of Labor









Van de Vijver Gertrudis: Objectivity, repetition, and the search for satisfaction












Part II: Literature and Cinema








Ayers David: From Text to Work: or, Operation Without Production









Baghetti Carlo: Works by Vitaliano Trevisan and the Representation of Work in the Neo-Liberal Age









Baracco Alberto: I Can Quit Whenever I Want. The Academic Precariat in Italian Cinema









Contarini Silvia: The refusal of the work in the Italian Literature: from Vogliamo tutto (1971) to Works (2016)









Jansen Monica: Labour and identity in documentary web series on new Italian emigrants









Marks John: Deux jours, une nuit and La loi du marché: the tactical withdrawal of government and capital









Santi Mara: When The Flash said: "We were all struck by that lightning". Work and the Contemporary Superhero TV-Shows









Shiach Morag: A new name and a new job, that’s what he’d like’ Identity, Labour and Precarity, 1915-2015









Toracca Tiziano: In the name of a loss: work and the contradictions of contemporary literary imaginary