Work and Labour Rights in a Post-Liberal Era

Nearly 200 million people across the world are unemployed. Even among those who do have a job, 1.4 billion people work under poor conditions. This raises the question of whether the current economic system, based on the liberal idea of competition among human beings on the labour market, really is able to guarantee the human right to work and, at the same time, a human right to fair working conditions. The project provides a new perspective. It attempts to understand how to reduce the need to work and create a right to freedom from work as a possible solution to the problems linked to employment from a post-liberal point of view. The project is funded by the SNF Ambizione grant 179971.